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Preferential subfunctionalization of slow-evolving genes after allopolyploidization in Xenopus laevis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Jun 2008
Sémon Marie, Wolfe Kenneth H
Abstract excerpt
As paleopolyploid genomes evolve, the expression profiles of retained gene pairs are expected to diverge. To examine this divergence process on a large scale in a vertebrate system, we compare Xenopus laevis, which has retained approximately 40% of loci in duplicate after a recent whole-genome duplication (WGD), with its unduplicated relative Silurana (Xenopus) tropicalis. This comparison of ingroup pairs to an...
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