Gene duplication (or chromosomal duplication or gene amplification) is a major mechanism through which new genetic material is generated during molecular...

Evolution by gene duplication is an event by which a gene or part of a gene can have two identical copies that can not be distinguished from each other...

duplication of genes within the same chromosome whereas trans duplication, or interchromosomal duplication, consists of duplicating genes on neighboring...

study of genomic parasites, gene and ancient genome duplications, polyploidy, and comparative genomics. Genome evolution is a constantly changing and...

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of existing genes may lead to new genes with novel functions. In 1970, Susumu Ohno published the seminal text Evolution by Gene Duplication. For some time...

governs all life. . .everything." Gene duplication Paleopolyploidy Susumu Ohno (1970). Evolution by gene duplication. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-04-575015-7...

can illustrate divergent evolution. Through gene duplication, it is possible for divergent evolution to occur between two genes within a species. Similarities...

gene duplication events, the following rules are often applied: Duplicated genes are located in large duplicated blocks. Single gene duplication is a...

A gene family is a set of several similar genes, formed by duplication of a single original gene, and generally with similar biochemical functions. One...

functional divergence, occurs when one gene copy, or paralog, takes on a totally new function after a gene duplication event. Neofunctionalization is an adaptive...

for new genes through studies of homologues include gene duplication, exon shuffling, gene fusion and fission, etc. Studying the origins of a gene becomes...

gene duplication. Such duplication events are responsible for many sets of paralogous genes. When an individual gene in such a set is disrupted by mutation...

to the conclusion that Hox gene clusters evolved early in animal evolution from a single Hox gene via tandem duplication and subsequent divergence, and...

pseudogenes arise as superfluous copies of functional genes, either directly by gene duplication or indirectly by reverse transcription of an mRNA transcript....

sequence into an existing gene, and gene truncation. Gene duplication initially leads to redundancy. However, duplicated gene sequences can mutate to develop...

either a speciation event (orthologs), or a duplication event (paralogs), or else a horizontal (or lateral) gene transfer event (xenologs). Homology among...

amplified. The duplicated segment contained the gene citT for the citrate transporter protein used in anaerobic growth on citrate. The duplication is tandem...

neutral evolution; meaning that no new adaptations are formed. During the process of gene duplication paralogs simply undergo a division of labor by retaining...

in some cases, most traits are influenced by multiple genes in a quantitative or epistatic manner. Evolution can occur if there is genetic variation within...

The gene-centered view of evolution, gene's eye view, gene selection theory, or selfish gene theory holds that adaptive evolution occurs through the differential...

reinvented routine trichromacy through a relatively recent gene duplication of the M/L gene. This duplication has allowed trichromacy for both sexes; its X chromosome...

analysis Human genome Inparanoid Molecular evolution Pseudogenes Segmental duplication Tandem exon duplication Virtual karyotype McCarroll SA, Altshuler...

into gene families. This is a very important concept in bioinformatics, and evolutionary biology in general. See evolution by gene duplication. High-throughput...

as part of his larger argument for the general importance of gene duplication in evolution. Based on relative genome sizes and isozyme analysis, he suggested...

(ectopic gene conversion) is conjectured to be responsible for concerted evolution of gene families. Conversion of one allele to the other is often due to base...

"Speciation by genome duplication: Repeated origins and genomic composition of the recently formed allopolyploid species Mimulus peregrinus". Evolution; International...

Gene duplication occurs in a large number of organisms as part of evolution or as the cause or result of disease (as in the case of the amylase genes...

every moment. Concerted evolution (phenomenon of duplicated genes) may often be caused by the genetic exchange known as gene conversion. This other phenomenon...

forms of gene duplication. The product of whole-gene duplication is two copies of the gene, whereas that of diploid-type gene duplication is one gene that...