Rate of evolution in brain-expressed genes in humans and other primates.

Brain-expressed genes are known to evolve slowly in mammals. Nevertheless, since brains of higher primates have evolved rapidly, one might expect acceleration in DNA sequence evolution in their brain-expressed genes. In this study, we carried out full-length cDNA sequencing on the brain transcriptom...

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Main Authors: Hurng-Yi Wang, Huan-Chieh Chien, Naoki Osada, Katsuyuki Hashimoto, Sumio Sugano, Takashi Gojobori, Chen-Kung Chou, Shih-Feng Tsai, Chung-I Wu, C-K James Shen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-02-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050013