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Quadrupling of genes over 550 million years behind vertebrate evolution
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London, June 19 -- Sequencing the genome of a marine invertebrate known as the lancelet, University of California-Berkeley scientists have come up with an explanation as to how a four-fold duplication of the genes took place during vertebrate evolution over the past 550 million years.
Late geneticist Susumu Ohno once described gene duplication as the most important force in the evolution of higher organisms, and based on his theory, it was reckoned that the human genome must contain up to 100,000 distinct genes.
When the ...
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