Fares Riaño, Mario Ali; Sabater-Muñoz, B.; Toft, C.(Oxford University Press, 2017-05-01)
[EN] Gene duplication generates new genetic material, which has been shown to lead to major innovations in unicellular and multicellular organisms. A whole-genome duplication occurred in the ancestor of Saccharomyces yeast ...
Keane, O.M.; Toft, C.; Carretero Paulet, Lorenzo; Jones, G.W.; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2014-11)
[EN] Biological systems remain robust against certain genetic and environmental challenges. Robustness allows the exploration of ecological adaptations. It is unclear what factors contribute to increasing robustness. Gene ...
Mattenberger, Florian; Sabater-Muñoz, B.; Toft, C.; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali(The Genetics Society of America, 2017-01)
[EN] Gene and genome duplication are the major sources of biological innovations in plants and animals. Functional and transcriptional divergence between the copies after gene duplication has been considered the main driver ...
Fares Riaño, Mario Ali; Keane, O.; Toft, C.; Carretero Paulet, Lorenzo; Jones, G.W.(Public Library of Science, 2013-01)
[EN] Researchers have long been enthralled with the idea that gene duplication can generate novel functions, crediting this process with great evolutionary importance. Empirical data shows that whole-genome duplications ...