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SUBMITTER: Ting CT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC514461 | biostudies-other | 2004 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Ting Chau-Ti CT Tsaur Shun-Chern SC Sun Sha S Browne William E WE Chen Yung-Chia YC Patel Nipam H NH Wu Chung-I CI
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040810 33
The importance of gene duplication in evolution has long been recognized. Because duplicated genes are prone to diverge in function, gene duplication could plausibly play a role in species differentiation. However, experimental evidence linking gene duplication with speciation is scarce. Here, we show that a hybrid-male sterility gene, Odysseus (OdsH), arose by gene duplication in the Drosophila genome. OdsH has evolved at a very high rate, whereas its most immediate paralog, unc-4, is nearly id ...[more]