Evolution by gene duplication
Magnetosome Gene Duplication as an Important Driver in the Evolution of Magnetotaxis in the Alphaproteobacteria
... the evolution of magnetotaxis at lower taxonomic ...Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is considered to have some roles in shaping the evolution of magnetotactic Alphapro- ...ancient duplication ...
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Patterns of Gene Duplication and Functional Evolution During the Diversification of the AGAMOUS Subfamily of MADS Box Genes in Angiosperms
... the evolution of this subfamily in the flowering plants, we have identified 26 new AG -like genes from 15 diverse angiosperm ...ancient gene duplications were critical in shaping the evolution of the ...
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Rapid Evolution Through Gene Duplication and Subfunctionalization of the Testes-Specific α4 Proteasome Subunits in Drosophila
... Gene duplication is an important mechanism for acquiring new genes and creating genetic novelty in ...of gene copies is a major factor promoting their retention in the ...␣4 gene. Our data ...
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Cdx ParaHox genes acquired distinct developmental roles after gene duplication in vertebrate evolution
... extensive gene loss following genome duplication, such that only a proportion of genes are retained in multiple ...of gene loss, the result is consistent with pre-genomic analyses, since the first ...
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Evolution of Vertebrate Tissues Driven by Differential Modes of Gene Duplication
... the evolution of vertebrate tissues by examining the potential association among gene expression, duplication, and base substitution ...genome duplication (WGD) with small-scale ...
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Evolution of Multigene Families by Gene Duplication: A Haploid Model
... by gene duplication and subsequent diversification is analyzed assuming a haploid model without interchromosomal crossing ...and duplication/deletion also affect the evolution, as in previous ...
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Cdx ParaHox genes acquired distinct developmental roles after gene duplication in vertebrate evolution
... extensive gene loss following genome duplication, such that only a proportion of genes are retained in multiple ...of gene loss, the result is consistent with pre-genomic analyses, since the first ...
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Further examples of evolution by gene duplication revealed through DNA sequence comparisons.
... the acceleration of amino acid substitution occurred through selection for mouse genes in conjunction with gene duplication. DISCUSSION[r] ...
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Pattern of nucleotide substitutions in growth hormone-prolactin gene family: a paradigm for evolution by gene duplication.
... If the synonymous substi- tutions faithfully reflect the mutation rate according to the neutral theory (KIMURA 1983), the amino acid substitutions are likely to be influenc[r] ...
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Simulating Evolution by Gene Duplication
... carried out to find out how duplicated genes evolve starting from a single copy, if unequal crossing over is continuously occurring and if natural selection works in such[r] ...
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Evolution by gene duplication and compensatory advantageous mutations.
... Tables 1 and 2 present results for the copy number, the number of different beneficial alleles, the number of genes with deleterious mutations, and positive and negative gene[r] ...
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Mechanisms of gene duplication and translocation and progress towards understanding their relative contributions to animal genome evolution
... Drosophila and other Diptera; nematodes like C.elegans [8, 94, 95]). One could speculate that this might reflect different abundances of repetitive elements, for example, which can have a role in facilitating genomic ...
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The Fasciola hepatica genome: gene duplication and polymorphism reveals adaptation to the host environment and the capacity for rapid evolution
... catalase gene was not found in the ...the gene encoding the recently described thioredoxin glutathione reductase (TGR; Additional file 14: Table S11), together with the absence of distinct thioredoxin ...
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Sequence-Dependent Gene Conversion: Can Duplicated Genes Diverge Fast Enough to Escape Conversion?
... Given (1) the possibility that regulatory divergence is the initial driving step behind evolution by gene duplication, (2) the high risk of duplicate genes degenerat[r] ...
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The Fasciola hepatica genome: gene duplication and polymorphism reveals adaptation to the host environment and the capacity for rapid evolution
... S. mansoni and O. viverrini have eight pairs and six pairs of chromosomes, respectively [18,19], but C. sinensis , also with a smaller genome than F. hepatica , has 28 pairs [20]. Comparative analysis with other ...
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Evolution by leaps: gene duplication in bacteria
... by duplication of genes within the genome of the organism itself or in that of an ancestor, although as previously mentioned some members of these families could have been introduced by lateral gene ...that ...
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The Fasciola hepatica genome: gene duplication and polymorphism reveals adaptation to the host environment and the capacity for rapid evolution.
... The F. hepatica genome is one of the largest pathogen genomes sequenced to date but we found no evidence of genome duplication or repeat expansion to explain this. Why this large genome should have evolved is ...
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Gene duplication and evolution in recurring polyploidization–diploidization cycles in plants
... 86,831 gene families (or orthologous groups) (freely available at figShare, ...one gene. We found no strict single-copy gene families for these 141 species, which may be due to errors in genome ...
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Conserved Functions of Yeast Genes Support the Duplication, Degeneration and Complementation Model for Gene Duplication
... the evolution of new function after yeast genome ...by duplication, degeneration, and complemen- tation and that newly evolved functions have contributed little to the persistence of most duplicated genes ...
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Gene and Genome Duplication in Acanthamoeba polyphaga Mimivirus
... Gene duplication is key to molecular evolution in all three domains of life and may be the first step in the emergence of new gene ...of gene and genome duplication events in the ...
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