Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
A dead gene walking: convergent degeneration of a clade of MADS-box genes in Brassicaceae
A. Hoffmeier, L. Gramzow, A. S. Bhide…·G. Theissen
The paper investigates gene death in Brassicaceae, showing that GOA-like genes undergo convergent degeneration while their paralogs, ABS-like genes, remain conserved.
DOI 10.1093/molbev/msy142