duplication event

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duplication
noun[U]
uk
/ˌdʒuː.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌduː.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the act or process of making an exact copy ...
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event
noun[C]
uk
/ɪˈvent/us
/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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This suggests aduplicationeventof a cluster of apparently unrelated genes during evolution.
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The loops as well as the corresponding domains are arranged symmetrically, and both domains contain a five-stranded -sheet of identical topology, which suggests an ancient geneduplicationevent.
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This appears to have been the result of a whole genomeduplicationeventaround.
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Unlike dipterans, however, these animals have two different orthologs of the cycle gene most likely caused by a geneduplicationevent.
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In the serine proteases, a geneduplicationeventhas led to the formation of a two -barrel domain enzyme.
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If they are paralogs and resulted from a geneduplicationevent, their functions are likely to be too different.
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One lobe has probably evolved from the other through a geneduplicationeventin the distant past.
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In this model after aduplicationevent, both paralogs suffer deleterious mutations leading to functional degradation.
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This expansion in the angiosperms is thought to be due to at least one genomicduplicationevent.
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Following the geneduplicationeventthere are two identical copies of the ancestral gene performing exactly the same function.
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Some suggest that this implies that these glypicans arose because of a geneduplicationevent.
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The - and the -forms are thought to be the result of a geneduplicationeventthat occurred millions of years ago.
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A copy of a functional gene may arise as a result of a geneduplicationeventand subsequently acquire mutations that cause it to become nonfunctional.
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To meet the requirements of this paradoxical situation, the plants express a type of haemoglobin called leghaemoglobin that is believed to be recruited after aduplicationevent.
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Radiation can be generally attributed to rare duplication events and more frequent recombination events of active sequence domains.
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Several factors suggest that duplication events occur prior to events which involve inter-allelic transfer of repeats.
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The gymnosperms include conifers, cycads, gnetales and ginkgos and these may have appeared as a result of a whole genomeduplicationeventwhich took place about 319 million years ago.
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If this was a geneduplicationevent: if a gene in an organism is duplicated to occupy two different positions in the same genome, then the two copies are paralogous.
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This may arise from speciation events, or through whole or partial genome duplication events (e.g. polyploidy).
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