Preferential duplication of conserved proteins in eukaryotic genomes.

A central goal in genome biology is to understand the origin and maintenance of genic diversity. Over evolutionary time, each gene's contribution to the genic content of an organism depends not only on its probability of long-term survival, but also on its propensity to generate duplicates that...

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Main Authors: Jerel C Davis, Dmitri A Petrov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2004-03-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020055