High divergence in primate-specific duplicated regions: Human and chimpanzee <it>Chorionic Gonadotropin Beta </it>genes
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Low nucleotide divergence between human and chimpanzee does not sufficiently explain the species-specific morphological, physiological and behavioral traits. As gene duplication is a major prerequisite for the emergence of new genes...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-07-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/195 |