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The rapid generation of chimerical genes expanding protein diversity in zebrafish.
BMC genomics - 24 Nov 2010
Fu Beide, Chen Ming, Zou Ming, Long Manyuan, He Shunping
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Variation of gene number among species indicates that there is a general process of new gene origination. One of the major mechanism providing raw materials for the origin of new genes is gene duplication. Retroposition, as a special type of gene duplication- the RNA-based duplication, has been found to play an important role in new gene evolution in mammals and plants, but little is known about the...
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