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Evolutionary mechanisms driving the evolution of a large polydnavirus gene family coding for protein tyrosine phosphatases
1 Dec 2012
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Gene duplications have been proposed to be the main mechanism involved in genome evolution and in acquisition of new functions. Polydnaviruses (PDVs), symbiotic viruses associated with parasitoid wasps, are ideal model systems to study mechanisms of gene duplications given that PDV genomes consist of virulence genes organized into multigene families. In these systems the viral genome is integrated in...
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