Patterns of gene evolution following duplications and speciations in vertebrates
Background Eukaryotic genes typically form independent evolutionary lineages through either speciation or gene duplication events. Generally, gene copies resulting from speciation events (orthologs) are expected to maintain similarity over time with regard to sequence, structure and function. After...
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PeerJ Inc.
2020-03-01
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