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Relaxed Purifying Selection and Possibly High Rate of Adaptation in Primate Lineage-Specific Genes

Genes in the same organism vary in the time since their evolutionary origin. Without horizontal gene transfer, young genes are necessarily restricted to a few closely related species, whereas old genes can be broadly distributed across the phylogeny. It has been shown that young genes evolve faster...

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Autores principales: Cai, James J., Petrov, Dmitri A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2997544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20624743
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evq019