A recent paper provides an updated perspective on the evolutionary history of chelicerates—a diverse and ecologically ...

but more," i.e., the phenomenon of massive gene losses followed by large expansions through gene duplications. This is one of ...

Losing Opens Up New Possibilities for Subsequent Gains Evolution is traditionally associated with increasing complexity and ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with increasing complexity and gaining new genes, but gene loss and simplification also ...

From sessile life to active swimming The study provides a new perspective on the evolution of FGF subfamilies in the chordate group, with massive losses and duplications of ancestral gene families ...

The human genome can have some quirky features, like copy number variation. When this happens, an individual carries, or loses bits of DNA, which ... | Genetics And Genomics ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene ...

LCRs, also called segmental duplications, are sequences that occur twice or a few times in a haploid genome. For practical purposes, the definition is limited by degree of identity (commonly >95% ...