Ambros Palaguerri, Silvia; De la Iglesia Jordán, Francisca; Rosario, S.; Butkovic, Anamarija; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Oxford University Press, 2018)
[EN] Functional redundancy, understood as the functional overlap of different genes, is a double-edge sword. At the one side, it is thought to serve as a robustness mechanism that buffers the deleterious effect of mutations ...
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 ...