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The ghost of selection past: rates of evolution and functional divergence of anciently duplicated genes.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jan 2000
Van de Peer Y, Taylor J S, Braasch I, Meyer A
Abstract excerpt
The duplication of genes and even complete genomes may be a prerequisite for major evolutionary transitions and the origin of evolutionary novelties. However, the evolutionary mechanisms of gene evolution and the origin of novel gene functions after gene duplication have been a subject of many debates. Recently, we compiled 26 groups of orthologous genes, which included one gene from human, mouse, and chicken,...
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