'Natural selection merely modified while redundancy created' - Susumu Ohno's idea of the evolutionary importance of gene and genome duplications

Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics

Volumn 3, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages

  Meyer, Axel ^a   Van de Peer, Yves ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Gene duplication; Genome duplication; Molecular evolution; Susumu Ohno

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HYPOTHESIS; INHERITANCE; KARYOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW;

EID: 0037263209     PISSN: 1345711X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1022684816803     Document Type: Review

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