Sunday, March 29, 2009
Evolutionary genetics: Making the most of redundancy
Single genes, chromosomal regions and even entire genomes can undergo duplication. What good can come of these extra copies? Evolution seems to use several tricks to take advantage of the situation. Full paper @ Nature
Also see Gene duplication and the adaptive evolution of a classic genetic switch
Also see Gene duplication and the adaptive evolution of a classic genetic switch
Labels: evolution, genetics, non-coding DNA
