Evolution and Ecological Value of Duplicate Genes
Annual Review of Ecology and SystematicsPublished 1 November 1976
Ross MacIntyre
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This article reviews some of the information from molecular biology which, in the last fifteen years, has effected this change in the extent of the evolutionary increase in the number of genes per organism.
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