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Vegetarian adaptation



A combination of sequence analysis and functional assays has revealed steps in functional innovation through the divergence of paralogs


Adaptive evolution of a duplicated pancreatic ribonuclease gene in a leaf-eating monkey.

J Zhang, Y Zhang and HF Rosenberg

Nat Genet 2002, 30: 411-415

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Subject areas: Ecology, Physiology, Molecular biology

Reported by: Diane P Genereux

Abstract

A combination of sequence analysis and functional assays has revealed steps in functional innovation through the divergence of paralogs


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