Phylogenetic patterns of emergence of new genes support a model of frequent de novo evolution
Open Access
- 1 January 2013
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Genomics
- Vol. 14 (1) , 117
Abstract
New gene emergence is so far assumed to be mostly driven by duplication and divergence of existing genes. The possibility that entirely new genes could emerge out of the non-coding genomic background was long thought to be almost negligible. With the increasing availability of fully sequenced genomes across broad scales of phylogeny, it has become possible to systematically study the origin of new genes over time and thus revisit this question.Keywords
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