A dead gene walking: convergent degeneration of a clade of MADS-box genes in Brassicaceae
A. Hoffmeier, L. Gramzow, A. S. Bhide, N. Kottenhagen, A. Greifenstein, O. Schubert, K. Mummenhoff, A. Becker, 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.
bioRxiv · Jun 19, 2017Evolutionary Biology