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Evolutionary genomics: yeasts accelerate beyond BLAST.
Current biology : CB - 25 May 2004
Wolfe Ken
Abstract excerpt
Two new genome sequences confirm that a whole genome duplication occurred in an ancestor of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This left a legacy of about 500 pairs of duplicated genes, many of which contribute to this yeast's ability to ferment glucose anaerobically; a few have been evolving so quickly they retain almost no sequence similarity to each other.
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