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Tissue specificity follows gene duplication

A comparative transcriptomic analysis of eight tissue types in twenty bilaterian species reveals the long-lasting effects of genome duplication on the evolution of novel tissue-specific gene-expression patterns.

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Fig. 1: Evolution of tissue-specific gene expression patterns.

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Necsulea, A. Tissue specificity follows gene duplication. Nat Ecol Evol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02394-9

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