Bidirectional promoters as important drivers for the emergence of species-specific transcripts.

The diversification of gene functions has been largely attributed to the process of gene duplication. Novel examples of genes originating from previously untranscribed regions have been recently described without regard to a unifying functional mechanism for their emergence. Here we propose a model...

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Main Authors: Valer Gotea, Hanna M Petrykowska, Laura Elnitski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3583895?pdf=render