Evolution gene duplication

Irish, V. F. and Litt, A. (2005). Flower development and evolution Gene duplication, diversification and redeployment. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, 15, 454-460. 

McLachlan, A.D. Gene duplications in the structural evolution of chymotrypsin. J. Mol. Biol. 128 49-79,... 

Devonshire, A.L. and Sawicki, R.M. (1979). Insecticide resistant Afyz 5 persicae as an example of evolution by gene duplication London. Nature 280,140-141. 

Gallagher, C.E. et al.. Gene duplication in the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway preceded evolution of the grasses (Poaceae). Plant Physiol. 135, 1776, 2004. 

Ohno, S. (1970). Evolution by Gene Duplication. Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York. 

Madern D, Cai X, Abrahamsen MS, Zhu G (2004) Evolution of Cryptosporidium parvum lactate dehydrogenase from malate dehydrogenase by a very recent event of gene duplication. Mol Biol Evol 21 489-497... 

An example of evolution via gene duplication is provided by the oxygen-carrying proteins of blood. 

Holm, I., Olio, R., Panthier, J.J. and Rougeon, F. (1984) Evolution of aspartyl proteases by gene duplication the mouse renin gene is organized by two homologous clusters of four exons. EMBO Journal 3, 557-562. 

The mandelate and jS-ketoadipate pathways serve as an example of gene duplication, as there is strong evidence pointing to the former evolving from the latter. Evolution of mandelate racemase from muconate lactonizing enzyme points to the relevance of the enzyme mechanism for catalytic reactivity. 

R. Sterner, and M. Wilmanns, Structural evidence for evolution of the beta/alpha barrel scaffold by gene duplication and fusion, Science 2000, 289, 1546-1550. 

Mandel, M., Moriyama, Y., Hulmes.J. D., Pan, Y. C., Nelson, H., and Nelson, N. (1988). cDNA sequence encoding the 16-kDa proteolipid of chromaffin granules implies gene duplication in the evolution of H+-ATPases. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85, 5521-5524. 

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