GeneticsJournal of Molecular EvolutionPeer-reviewed
Genes relocated between Drosophila chromosome arms evolve under relaxed selective constraints relative to non-relocated genes
Margaret L. I. Hart, Ban L. Vu, Quinten Bolden…·Richard P. Meisel
The paper investigates the evolutionary constraints on relocated genes in Drosophila, finding they evolve faster and are less essential than non-relocated genes but more constrained than canonical duplicates.
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