Abstract
Why have two genes when one would suffice? Evolutionary pressure means that biology, unlike government, is generally intolerant of wasted effort. Therefore, when multiple genes exist presumably they are there to provide some benefit to the organism even if that benefit is not immediately obvious to us scientists. A recent report from Raghu and colleagues (Biosci. Rep. (2018) 38, pii: BSR20181690) [1] sheds some light on one possible reason for the existence of two Phospholipases D genes in chordates when only one is present in invertebrates.
Document Type
Commentary
Publication Date
6-28-2019
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1042/BSR20181883
Repository Citation
Morris, Andrew J., "Phospholipases D: Making Sense of Redundancy and Duplication" (2019). Internal Medicine Faculty Publications. 202.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/internalmedicine_facpub/202
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Notes/Citation Information
Published in Bioscience Reports, v. 39, issue 6, BSR20181883, p. 1-3.
© 2019 The Author(s).
This is an open access article published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).