NEW TWIST. “Duplicate genes show evidence of purifying selection more consistent with buffering of the ancestral gene function than neofunctionalization reconciled Ohno’s original theory with more recent observations by proposing subfunctionalization as a means of preserving duplicate genes in the presence of degenerative mutations targeting both members of a duplicate pair.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022