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Rapid Functional and Sequence Differentiation of a Tandemly Repeated Species-Specific Multigene Family in Drosophila.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jan 2017
Clifton Bryan D, Librado Pablo, Yeh Shu-Dan, Solares Edwin S, Real Daphne A, Jayasekera Suvini U, Zhang Wanting, Shi Mijuan, Park Ronni V, Magie Robert D, Ma Hsiu-Ching, Xia Xiao-Qin, Marco Antonio, Rozas Julio, Ranz José M
Abstract excerpt
Gene clusters of recently duplicated genes are hotbeds for evolutionary change. However, our understanding of how mutational mechanisms and evolutionary forces shape the structural and functional evolution of these clusters is hindered by the high sequence identity among the copies, which typically results in their inaccurate representation in genome assemblies. The presumed testis-specific, chimeric gene Sdic...
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