The chordate O. dioica, despite losing lots of genes, maintains a typical body plan with organs and structures (heart, brain, thyroids, etc.) which can be considered to be homologues to the vertebrates.Credit: Image courtesy of Universidad de Barcelona"Loss is nothing else but change and change is nature's delight" says the quote by the philosopher and emperor Marcus Aurelius, which opens the scientific article that analyses the gene loss phenomenon and its impact on the evolution of living beings.The study was published in the magazine Nature Review Geneticsand signed by profess...
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2016
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