Escape from adaptive conflict after duplication in an anthocyanin pathway gene

David L. Des Marais () and Mark D. Rausher ()
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Mark D. Rausher: Box 90338, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0338, USA

Nature, 2008, vol. 454, issue 7205, 762-765

Abstract: New genes often evolve when one gene is duplicated, and one or both of the copies evolve new functions. Many studies have explored the mechanism behind this evolution, primarily thought to be the processes of neo-functionalization and escape from adaptive conflict. This paper proposes tests to distinguish between these two processes and argues that the latter has occurred much more often than previously thought.

Date: 2008
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