Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Enhancer evolution as a driving force for lineage-specific paralog usage in the central nervous system.
C. Fujimori, K. Sugimoto, M. Ishida…·S. Kanda
The paper investigates how enhancer evolution drives lineage-specific paralog usage in hypophysiotropic GnRH neurons across vertebrates, finding that enhancer loss, not regulatory changes, caused paralog role division.