The evolutionary origin of orphan genes

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 692-702

  Tautz, Diethard ^a   Domazet Lošo, Tomislav ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ORPHAN GENE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 80052969570     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3053     Document Type: Review

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