Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Sudden shifts in expression after small-scale duplication in vertebrates and strong support for the ortholog conjecture
Tina Begum, Pablo Duchen, Christabel Floi Bucao, Marc Robinson‐Rechavi
The paper tests the ortholog conjecture by analyzing gene expression shifts after duplication in vertebrates, finding strong support for the conjecture and showing trait jumps affect small-scale paralogs more than genome-wide duplicates.
DOI 10.1101/2023.12.29.571877