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Engineered Functional Redundancy Relaxes Selective Constraints upon Endogenous Genes in Viral RNA Genomes.
Genome biology and evolution - 1 Jul 2018
Ambrós Silvia, de la Iglesia Francisca, Rosario Sttefany M, Butkovic Anamarija, Elena Santiago F
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Functional redundancy, understood as the functional overlap of different genes, is a double-edge sword. At the one side, it is thought to serve as a robustness mechanism that buffers the deleterious effect of mutations hitting one of the redundant copies, thus resulting in pseudogenization. At the other side, it is considered as a source of genetic and functional innovation. In any case, genetically redundant...
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