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Synteny-based analyses indicate that sequence divergence is not the main source of orphan genes

2019-08-14

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The origin of “orphan” genes, species-specific sequences that lack detectable homologues, has remained mysterious since the dawn of the genomic era. There are two dominant explanations for orphan genes: complete sequence divergence from ancestral genes, such that homologues are not readily detectable; and de novo emergence from ancestral non-genic sequences, such that homologues genuinely do not exist. The relati...

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Literature Corpus work: 9eeac7ec-46a0-571a-ac39-5e8fef069ce2
DOI: 10.1101/735175

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