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G2-seq: A High Throughput Sequencing-based Technique for Identifying Late Replicating Regions of the Genome
Published on: March 22, 2018
[Progress in the study of gene duplication]
Gui-Zi Peng1, Ling-Ling Chen, Da-Cheng Tian
1State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China. gattacaPGZ@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Gene duplication is one of the most important factors that influence the evolution of genome size, the origination of novel gene, the genetic robustness against null mutations, the speciation, etc. Duplication can be created by unequal crossing over, retroposition, or whole genome (or chromosomal) duplication. In this review, we summarized the studies of the molecular mechanisms of gene duplication, the preservation of duplicated gene, the selections acting on duplicated gene, the alternative ways of divergence and the evolution rate.
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