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Genome evolution
Introduction
The genome evolution is a set of phenomena involved in the changing of the structure of a genome throughout the evolution. The study of genome evolution involves multiple fields such as structural analysis of the genome (evolution of its size, gene content etc), the study of genomic parasites, gene and ancient genome duplications, polypoidy, comparative genomics.
References
- A. Meyer (Editor), Y. van de Peer, “Genome Evolution: Gene and Genome Duplications and the Origin of Novel Gene Functions”, 2003, ISBN 978-1402010217
- T. Ryan Gregory, “The Evolution of the Genome”, 2004, YSBN 978-0123014634