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Gene relics in the genome of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Gene - 23 Jun 2004
Lafontaine Ingrid, Fischer Gilles, Talla Emmanuel, Dujon Bernard
Abstract excerpt
There is increasing evidence that DNA duplication is a common and ongoing process that plays a major role in molecular evolution of genomes and that a large fraction of the duplicated gene copies becomes non-functional by accumulation of deleterious mutations. In order to describe this phenomenon, we systematically searched the 6404 intergenic regions (IRs) of the genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for traces of...
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