PUBLICATION
Genome duplication, divergent resolution and speciation
- Authors
- Taylor, J.S., van de Peer, Y., and Meyer, A.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-010829-7
- Date
- 2001
- Source
- Trends in genetics : TIG 17: 299-301 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Meyer, Axel, Taylor, John
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Biological Evolution*
- Gene Duplication*
- Gene Silencing
- Genes, Duplicate*
- Genetic Variation*
- Models, Genetic*
- Phylogeny
- PubMed
- 11377777 Full text @ Trends Genet.
Citation
Taylor, J.S., van de Peer, Y., and Meyer, A. (2001) Genome duplication, divergent resolution and speciation. Trends in genetics : TIG. 17:299-301.
Abstract
What are the evolutionary consequences of gene duplication? One answer is speciation, according to a model initially called Reciprocal Silencing and recently expanded and renamed Divergent Resolution. This model shows how the loss of different copies of a duplicated gene in allopatric populations (divergent resolution) can promote speciation by genetically isolating these populations should they become reunited. Genome duplication events produce thousands of duplicated genes. Therefore, lineages with a history of genome duplication might have been especially prone to speciation via divergent resolution.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping