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Genes from scratch – the evolutionary fate of de novo genes

Although considered an extremely unlikely event, many genes emerge from previously noncoding genomic regions. This review covers the entire life cycle of such de novo genes. Two competing hypotheses about the process of de novo gene birth are discussed as well as the high death rate of de novo genes...

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Autor principal: Schlötterer, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Trends Journals 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4383367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25773713
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2015.02.007