Genome Evolution Course - 2009
Evolution by Gene Duplication
Topics
- Preponderance of paralogs (gene duplicates) in genomes
- The fate of duplicate genes
- The consequences of gene
duplication for speciation
- Preservation of duplicates by
subfunctionalization
- An example of adaptive
evolution
- Constructive neutral
evolution
Suggested readings
Assignment
Back to the Genome
Evolution Course.
Itai Yanai, yanai@technion.ac.il