GLADX: an automated approach to analyze the lineage-specific loss and pseudogenization of genes.

A well-established ancestral gene can usually be found, in one or multiple copies, in different descendant species. Sometimes during the course of evolution, all the representatives of a well-established ancestral gene disappear in specific lineages; such gene losses may occur in the genome by delet...

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Main Authors: Jacques Dainat, Julien Paganini, Pierre Pontarotti, Philippe Gouret
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3377690?pdf=render