Immunoglobulin heavy constant gamma gene evolution is modulated by both the divergent and birth-and-death evolutionary models
D. Garzon-Ospina, S. P. Buitrago
The paper analyzes IgG gene evolution across primate genomes, finding expansion and pseudogenization in Catarrhini and evidence of positive selection shaping species-specific effector functions.
bioRxiv · Aug 12, 2021Evolutionary Biology