Spare gene is fodder for fishes' evolution

Friday, September 4, 2009 - 11:49 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have suspected that spare parts in the genome - extra copies of functional genes that arise when genes or whole genomes get duplicated - might sometimes provide the raw materials for the evolution of new traits. Now, researchers report in a study published online on 3rd September in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, that they have discovered a prime example of this in fish...

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