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ABSTRACT:
INSTRUMENT(S): Illumina Genome Analyzer II
ORGANISM(S): Funaria hygrometrica
SUBMITTER: Peter Szovenyi
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-1664 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Molecular biology and evolution 20130517 8
The masking hypothesis predicts that selection is more efficient in haploids than in diploids, because dominant alleles can mask the deleterious effects of recessive alleles in diploids. However, gene expression breadth and noise can potentially counteract the effect of masking on the rate at which genes evolve. Land plants are ideal to ask whether masking, expression breadth, or expression noise dominate in their influence on the rate of molecular evolution, because they have a biphasic life cy ...[more]