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TWiEVO 41: Where do baby genes come from?

  • March 20, 2019
  • Tagged as: adaptive evolution, antifreeze protein, de novo gene, evolution, natural selection, nogenic, noncoding gene, noncoding origin, northern codfish, proto-ORF

Nels and Vincent explore the evolution of new protein-coding genes de novo from nocoding DNA sequences, using the antifreeze protein of northern codfish as a model.

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