Indeed, pseudogenes can be functional at the DNA, RNA or protein levels and have a function related or independent of the parental gene [ 4].
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Opisthobranch and pulmonate species are hermaphroditic and often protandrous (male gonads maturing first); however, in many taxa, adults become simultaneous hermaphrodites (male and female gonads are functional at the same time).
Most experiments with human stem cells have only shown that the cells can acquire the phenotype of various differentiated cell types, but have not shown that the cells are functional at the transplantation site.
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This indicates that the TS-clathrin heavy chain is functional at the permissive but compromised at the non-permissive temperature.
Our results with dendrotoxin-K were in further agreement with the Kv1.1 channel being functional at the level of electrophysiology.
Obviously in this model where thymocyte development is blocked at the DP stage, only transfected T lymphocytes can migrate and be functional at the periphery.
To check at which stage, both enhancers are functional at the transcriptional level, whole-mount in situ hybridization (WISH) to detect GFP mRNA was performed.
If the F-ORF would not be functional at the protein level, one would expect the presence of within- and between-species "coding disablements", such as the numerous frameshift mutations and premature stop-codons seen in M-ORF sequences.
