The discovery of de novo gene evolution

Tautz, Diethard

doi:10.1353/pbm.2014.0006

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The discovery of de novo gene evolution

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Tautz, Diethard
Department Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Society;

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Tautz, D. (2014). The discovery of de novo gene evolution. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 57(1), 149-161. doi:10.1353/pbm.2014.0006.

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Abstract

Genes can evolve via duplication and divergence mechanisms, but
also de novo out of non-coding intergenic sequences. This latter mechanism has only
recently become fully appreciated, while the former mechanism was an almost exclusive
dogma for quite some time. This essay explores the history of this development:
why a view developed, with the alternative hardly being explored. Because of the prevailing
view, an important aspect of the nature of genes and their evolutionary origin
escaped our attention. Evidence is now rapidly accumulating that de novo evolution is
a very active mechanism for generating novelty in the