Article
Invasion and maintenance of a gene duplication.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 12 Apr 1994
Clark A G
Abstract excerpt
The ubiquity of multigene families is evidence for the frequent occurrence of gene duplication, but the origin of multigene families from a single gene remains a little-studied aspect of genome evolution. Although it is clear that a duplication can arise and become fixed in a population purely by random genetic drift and that the rate of fixation is accelerated if the duplication is directly advantageous, the...
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