Lamprey genome reveals new insights into history of vertebrate evolution
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 09:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
According to the '2R hypothesis', the evolution of modern vertebrates was propelled forward in part by two events in our early ancestry in which the entire genome was duplicated. These events, known as 1R and 2R, yielded multiple copies of every gene, some of which were subsequently lost while others evolved to acquire new functions.