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Evolutionary dynamics and functional specialization of plant paralogs formed by whole and small-scale genome duplications.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Nov 2012
Carretero-Paulet Lorenzo, Fares Mario A
Abstract excerpt
Gene duplicates are a major source of evolutionary novelties in the form of new or specialized functions and play a key role in speciation. Gene duplicates are generated through whole genome duplications (WGD) or small-scale genome duplications (SSD). Although WGD preserves the stoichiometric relationships between duplicates, those arising from SSD are usually unbalanced and are expected to follow different...
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