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SUBMITTER: Christin PA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3845648 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Christin Pascal-Antoine PA Boxall Susanna F SF Gregory Richard R Edwards Erika J EJ Hartwell James J Osborne Colin P CP
Genome biology and evolution 20130101 11
During the diversification of living organisms, novel adaptive traits usually evolve through the co-option of preexisting genes. However, most enzymes are encoded by gene families, whose members vary in their expression and catalytic properties. Each may therefore differ in its suitability for recruitment into a novel function. In this work, we test for the presence of such a gene recruitment bias using the example of C4 photosynthesis, a complex trait that evolved recurrently in flowering plant ...[more]