Comparative Evolutionary Histories of the Fungal Chitinase Gene Family Reveal Non-Random Size Expansions and Contractions due to Adaptive Natural Selection [electronic resource]
Gene duplication and loss play an important role in the evolution of novel functions and for shaping an organism?s gene content. Recently, it was suggested that stress-related genes frequently are exposed to duplications and losses, while growth-related genes show selection against change in copy nu...
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Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. :
United States. Department of Energy. Office of Science ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy,
2008.
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