A Synergistic, Cultivator Model of De Novo Gene Origination.

Abstract excerpt

The origin and fixation of evolutionarily young genes is a fundamental question in evolutionary biology. However, understanding the origins of newly evolved genes arising de novo from noncoding genomic sequences is challenging. This is partly due to the low likelihood that several neutral or nearly neutral mutations fix prior to the appearance of an important novel molecular function. This issue is particularly...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Evolution, Molecular
• Share to Models, Genetic
• Share to Mutation