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GENE-dosage effects on fitness in recent adaptive duplications: ace-1 in the mosquito Culex pipiens.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jul 2014
Labbé Pierrick, Milesi Pascal, Yébakima André, Pasteur Nicole, Weill Mylène, Lenormand Thomas
Abstract excerpt
Gene duplications have long been advocated to contribute to the evolution of new functions. The role of selection in their early spread is more controversial. Unless duplications are favored for a direct benefit of increased expression, they are likely detrimental. In this article, we investigated the case of duplications favored because they combine already functionally divergent alleles. Their...
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