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- Title
Very low gene duplication rate in the yeast genome.
- Authors
Gao, Li-Zhi; Innan, Hideki
- Abstract
The gene duplication rate in the yeast genome is estimated without assuming the molecular clock model to be approximately 0.01 to 0.06 per gene per billion years; this rate is two orders of magnitude lower than a previous estimate based on the molecular clock model. This difference is explained by extensive concerted evolution via gene conversion between duplicated genes, which violates the assumption of the molecular clock in the analyses of duplicated genes. The average length of the period of concerted evolution and the gene conversion rate are estimated to be approximately 25 million years and approximately 28 times the mutation rate, respectively.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2004, Vol 306, Issue 5700, p1367
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.1102033