microRNAs as Indicators into the Causes and Consequences of Whole Genome Duplication Events
K. J. Peterson, A. Beavan, P. Chabot, M. L. McPeek, D. Pisani, B. Fromm, O. Simakov
This study investigates the role of microRNAs in whole genome duplication events, finding that miRNA paralogues are functionally equivalent and that miRNA seed sequence diversity, not WGDs, correlates with morphological complexity.
bioRxiv · Sep 1, 2021Evolutionary Biology