The fate of duplicated genes: Loss or new function?

BioEssays

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 785-788

  Wagner, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONAL DIVERGENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; PSEUDOGENE; VERTEBRATE;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032191746     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199810)20:10<785::AID-BIES2>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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