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Gene Conversion and Evolution of Gene Families: An Overview

The importance of gene conversion for the evolution of gene families is reviewed. Four problems concerning gene conversion, i.e., concerted evolution, generation of useful variation, deleterious effects, and relation to neofunctionalization, are discussed by surveying reported examples of evolving g...

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Autor principal: Ohta, Tomoko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3966226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24710091
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes1030349