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Subfunctionalization of duplicated genes as a transition state to neofunctionalization

BACKGROUND: Gene duplication has been suggested to be an important process in the generation of evolutionary novelty. Neofunctionalization, as an adaptive process where one copy mutates into a function that was not present in the pre-duplication gene, is one mechanism that can lead to the retention...

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Autores principales: Rastogi, Shruti, Liberles, David A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1112588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15831095
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-5-28