Is gene duplication a viable explanation for the origination of biological information and complexity?

Complexity

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 17-31

  Bozorgmehr, Joseph Esfandiar Hannon ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological complexity; Compensatory mutation; Conservation of information; Evolutionary divergence; Gene duplication

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960257208     PISSN: 10762787     EISSN: 10990526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20365     Document Type: Article

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