Researchers show how 1 gene becomes 2 (with different functions)

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 12:20 in Biology & Nature

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers report that they are the first to show in molecular detail how one gene evolved two competing functions that eventually split up -- via gene duplication -- to...

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