Sequence, structural and expression divergence of duplicate genes in the bovine genome.

Gene duplication is a widespread phenomenon in genome evolution, and it has been proposed to serve as an engine of evolutionary innovation. In the present study, we performed the first comprehensive analysis of duplicate genes in the bovine genome. A total of 3131 putative duplicated gene pairs were...

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Main Authors: Xiaoping Liao, Hua Bao, Yan Meng, Graham Plastow, Stephen Moore, Paul Stothard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4108385?pdf=render