Gene duplications in prokaryotes can be associated with environmental adaptation

BACKGROUND: Gene duplication is a normal evolutionary process. If there is no selective advantage in keeping the duplicated gene, it is usually reduced to a pseudogene and disappears from the genome. However, some paralogs are retained. These gene products are likely to be beneficial to the organism...

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Autores principales: Bratlie, Marit S, Johansen, Jostein, Sherman, Brad T, Huang, Da Wei, Lempicki, Richard A, Drabløs, Finn
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3091735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20961426
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-11-588

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3091735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20961426
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-11-588

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