Molecular evidence for an ancient duplication of the entire yeast genome

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Summary

A model is proposed in which this species is a degenerate tetraploid resulting from a whole-genome duplication that occurred after the divergence of Saccharomyces from Kluyveromyces, and protein pairs derived from this duplication event make up 13% of all yeast proteins.

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1997-06-12
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Gene duplication, Biology, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Genome, Gene

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