Evolutionary preservation of redundant duplicated genes

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 555-559

  Krakauer, David C ^a   Nowak, Martin A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Evolution of genetic redundancy; Gene duplication; Gene families; Genome organization; Mathematical model

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION;

EID: 0033209331     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scdb.1999.0337     Document Type: Article

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