Local synteny and codon usage contribute to asymmetric sequence divergence of <it>Saccharomyces cerevisiae </it>gene duplicates

Local synteny and codon usage contribute to asymmetric sequence divergence of <it>Saccharomyces cerevisiae </it>gene duplicates

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Duplicated genes frequently experience asymmetric rates of sequence evolution. Relaxed selective constraints and positive selection have both been invoked to explain the observation that one paralog within a gene-duplicate pair exhib...

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Main Authors: Bergthorsson Ulfar, Bu Lijing, Katju Vaishali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-09-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/279

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