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Gene Duplications and Divergence

Gene Duplication

Gene Duplication

This figure indicates a schematic of a region of a chromosome before and after a duplication event. Ectopic recombination is typically mediated by sequence similarity at the duplicate breakpoints, which form direct repeats.

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