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

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 11:52 in Biology & Nature

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 pursue their separate destinies.

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