“MASSIVE GENE DUPLICATION at the basis of the eukaryotic emergence. The existence of a large amount of pan-eukaryotic paralogues suggests that gene duplication has been a major driving force in eukaryotic evolution. For example, whereas many components of the eukaryotic core machinery comprise two or more gene copies, their prokaryotic counterparts mostly contain only a single gene.” Generating more material to reformulate, a bigger tool box.
http://www.biochemsoctrans.org/content/41/1/451.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022