The effect of functional compensation among duplicate genes can constrain their evolutionary divergence

Journal of Genetics

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-8

  Bozorgmehr, Joseph Esfandiar Hannon ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

evolutionary divergence; functional compensation; gene duplication; redundancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857222750     PISSN: 00221333     EISSN: 09737731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12041-012-0125-y     Document Type: Article

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