A model explaining the size distribution of gene and protein families.

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This article deals with the theoretical size distribution of gene and protein families in complete genomes. A simple evolutionary model for the development of such families in which genes in a family are formed or selected against independently and at random, and in which new families are formed by the random splitting of existing families, is used to derive the resulting size distribution. Mathematically this...

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