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BMCBI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Background: Overlapping genes (OGs) are defined as adjacent genes whose coding sequences overlap partially or entirely. In fact, they are ubiquitous in microbial genomes and more ...
RECOMB
2012
Springer
11 years 7 months ago
2012
Springer
Background: Paralog reduction, the loss of duplicate genes after whole genome duplication (WGD) is a pervasive process. Whether this loss proceeds gene by gene or through deletion...
EVOW
2010
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
2010
Springer
Overlapping genes (encoded on the same DNA strand but in different frames) are thought to be rare and, therefore, were largely neglected in the past. In a test set of 800 viruses ...
NAR
2002
13 years 5 months ago
2002
Comparative genomics has shown that ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii) contain more copies of many genes than other vertebrates. A large number of these additional genes appear to h...
JCB
2000
13 years 5 months ago
2000
Large scale gene duplication is a major force driving the evolution of genetic functional innovation. Whole genome duplications are widely believed to have played an important rol...