Comparative Evolutionary Histories of the Fungal Chitinase Gene Family Reveal Non-Random Size Expansions and Contractions due to Adaptive Natural Selection
Gene duplication and loss play an important role in the evolution of novel functions and for shaping an organism’s gene content. Recently, it was suggested that stress-related genes frequently are exposed to duplications and losses, while growth-related genes show selection against change in copy nu...
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| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2008-01-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Bioinformatics |
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| Online Access: | http://la-press.com/article.php?article_id=626 |