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Ultra Large Gene Families: A Matter of Adaptation or Genomic Parasites?

Gene duplication is an important mechanism of molecular evolution. It offers a fast track to modification, diversification, redundancy or rescue of gene function. However, duplication may also be neutral or (slightly) deleterious, and often ends in pseudo-geneisation. Here, we investigate the phylog...

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Autores principales: Schiffer, Philipp H., Gravemeyer, Jan, Rauscher, Martina, Wiehe, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5041008/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27509525
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life6030032