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The rarity of gene shuffling in conserved genes.
Genome biology - 1 Jan 2005
Conant Gavin C, Wagner Andreas
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Among three sources of evolutionary innovation in gene function - point mutations, gene duplications, and gene shuffling (recombination between dissimilar genes) - gene shuffling is the most potent one. However, surprisingly little is known about its incidence on a genome-wide scale. RESULTS: We have studied shuffling in genes that are conserved between distantly related species. Specifically, we...
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