Turning a hobby into a job: How duplicated genes find new functions

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 938-950

  Conant, Gavin C ^a   Wolfe, Kenneth H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE RECEPTOR; ISOLEUCINE; VALINE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANIMALS; GALACTOKINASE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HUMANS; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 56549119570     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2482     Document Type: Review

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