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By M. Long. 2006

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The evolution of animal chemosensory receptor gene repertoires: roles of chance and necessity (2008, background): “Some RNAs that are transcribed from pseudogenes have regulatory roles in gene expressio”
Evolution and functions of long noncoding RNAs. (2009, background): “Hence, Xist is a protein-coding gene in marsupials that is unlikely to be involved in X inactivation (Duret et al., 2006), and neither Air nor Kcnq1ot1 have been identified in marsupials (Killian et al.”
MicroRNAs as master regulators of the plant NB-LRR defense gene family via the production of phased, trans-acting siRNAs. (2011, background): “S7), which resembles the clustered distribution of those noncoding phasiRNAs loci in grass; such a scenario has been described for the Xist noncoding RNA that functions in X-chromosome inactivation in animals (Duret et al. 2006).”
Functionality or transcriptional noise? Evidence for selection within long noncoding RNAs. (2007, background): “The Xist RNA gene evolved in eutherians by pseudogenization of a protein-coding gene.”