Showing posts with label WGD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WGD. Show all posts

Monday, June 28, 2010

"one gene or two"


Here is an interesting Research Highlight on the relationship between gene copy number and protein production, and how this varies among genes -- sometimes there is a clear dosage effect, sometimes not... interesting to look at in terms of history of whole genome duplication (WGD), which has happened twice in vertebrate evolution....