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Evolution by polyploidy and gene regulation in Anura.
Genetics and molecular research : GMR - 30 Jun 2004
Beçak Maria Luiza, Kobashi Leonardo Setsuo
Abstract excerpt
The evolution of the metazoa has been characterized by gene redundancy, generated by polyploidy, tandem duplication and retrotransposition. Polyploidy can be detected by looking for duplicated chromosomes or segments of orthologous chromosomes in post-polyploid animals. It has been proposed that the evolutionary role of polyploidy is to provide extra-copies of genes, whose subsequent alteration leads to new...
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