Journal article
The odds of duplicate gene persistence after polyploidization
Abstract
BackgroundGene duplication is an important biological phenomenon associated with genomic redundancy, degeneration, specialization, innovation, and speciation. After duplication, both copies continue functioning when natural selection favors duplicated protein function or expression, or when mutations make them functionally distinct before one copy is silenced.ResultsHere we quantify the degree to which genetic parameters related to gene …
Authors
Chain FJ; Dushoff J; Evans BJ
Journal
BMC Genomics, Vol. 12, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2011
DOI
10.1186/1471-2164-12-599
ISSN
1471-2164