Article
Asymmetric functional divergence of young, dispersed gene duplicates in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Feb 2013
Owens Sarah M, Harberson Nicholas A, Moore Richard C
Abstract excerpt
One prediction of the classic Ohno model of gene duplication predicts that new genes form from the asymmetric functional divergence of a newly arisen, redundant duplicate locus. In order to understand the mechanisms which give rise to functional divergence of newly formed dispersed duplicates, we assessed the expression and molecular evolutionary divergence of a suite of 19 highly similar dispersed duplicates in...
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