Predicting the stability of homologous gene duplications in a plant RNA virus
Anouk Willemsen, Mark Peter Zwart, Pablo Higueras, Josep Sardanyés, Santiago F. Elena
This study investigates the stability of gene duplications in plant RNA viruses, finding that duplications reduce fitness and are often deleted, with deletion dynamics influenced by gene size, position, and passage duration.
bioRxiv · Jun 24, 2016Evolutionary Biology