Phospholipases D: making sense of redundancy and duplication

Why have two genes when one would suffice? Evolutionary pressure means that biology, unlike government, is generally intolerant of wasted effort. Therefore, when multiple genes exist presumably they are there to provide some benefit to the organism even if that benefit is not immediately obvious to...

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Autor principal: Morris, Andrew J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Portland Press Ltd. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6597845/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31189747
http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/BSR20181883
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description Why have two genes when one would suffice? Evolutionary pressure means that biology, unlike government, is generally intolerant of wasted effort. Therefore, when multiple genes exist presumably they are there to provide some benefit to the organism even if that benefit is not immediately obvious to us scientists. A recent report from Raghu and colleagues (Biosci. Rep. (2018) 38, pii: BSR20181690) [1] sheds some light on one possible reason for the existence of two Phospholipases D genes in chordates when only one is present in invertebrates.
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spelling pubmed-65978452019-07-05 Phospholipases D: making sense of redundancy and duplication Morris, Andrew J. Biosci Rep Commentaries Why have two genes when one would suffice? Evolutionary pressure means that biology, unlike government, is generally intolerant of wasted effort. Therefore, when multiple genes exist presumably they are there to provide some benefit to the organism even if that benefit is not immediately obvious to us scientists. A recent report from Raghu and colleagues (Biosci. Rep. (2018) 38, pii: BSR20181690) [1] sheds some light on one possible reason for the existence of two Phospholipases D genes in chordates when only one is present in invertebrates. Portland Press Ltd. 2019-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6597845/ /pubmed/31189747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/BSR20181883 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Phospholipases D: making sense of redundancy and duplication
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6597845/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31189747
http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/BSR20181883
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