Evolutionary and Functional Aspects of Genetic Redundancy

Evolution after Gene Duplication

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 229-252

  Kafri, Ran ^a   Pilpel, Tzachi ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Conditional coregulation and metabolic flux maintenance fluxes governed and regulated by concentration of active enzymes catalyzing reactions; Evolutionary and functional aspects of genetic redundancy understanding evolution of duplicated genes, paradigm of duplication and divergence; Evolutionary perspective, and redundancies buffering phenotypes from genomic variations, by reducing phenotypic cost of mutations, increasing organism's evolvability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885529082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470619902.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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