Open AccessWhole-Genome Duplications: Does Metabolic Connectivity Influence Gene Retention?
Author(s) -
Jennifer Mach
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.111.230510
Subject(s) - biology , gene , genome , genetics , gene duplication , computational biology , evolutionary biology
Gene duplications can serve as fodder for evolutionary diversification, with duplicate genes evolving novel functions or subdividing the ancestral gene's functions (reviewed in [Van de Peer et al., 2009][1]). Duplications can be small or large scale, with whole-genome duplication (WGD) being the
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