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Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Karn and Laukaitis show that rather than being uniquely mammalian, secretoglobins are also found in turtles, crocodilians, lizards and birds, suggesting they existed in the Carboniferous period.

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Bob Karn

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