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The probability of preservation of a newly arisen gene duplicate.
Genetics - 1 Dec 2001
Lynch M, O'Hely M, Walsh B, Force A
Abstract excerpt
Newly emerging data from genome sequencing projects suggest that gene duplication, often accompanied by genetic map changes, is a common and ongoing feature of all genomes. This raises the possibility that differential expansion/contraction of various genomic sequences may be just as important a mechanism of phenotypic evolution as changes at the nucleotide level. However, the population-genetic mechanisms...
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