When two is better than one.
basic_science · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 17956721.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
Gene duplication and divergence has long been considered an important route to adaptation and phenotypic evolution. Reporting in Nature, Hittinger and Carroll (2007) provide the first clear example of adaptations in both regulatory regions and protein-coding regions after gene duplication. This combination of evolutionary changes appears to have resolved an adaptive conflict, leading to increased organismal fitness.
Medical subject headings
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Duplication
- Genetic Variation
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae