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- adjective genetics, of genes or sequences exhibiting
orthology ; having been separated by aspeciation event.
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Examples
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Simulations designed to answer this question show that dual coding is statistically unlikely, suggesting that if overlapping coding regions are detected in orthologous sequences, they have a high chance of being truly functional.
A Single Cell 2007
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(in the jargon orthologous) genes in insects and in vertebrates produce an inversion in the development of the nervous system.
ScreenTalk 2009
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(in the jargon orthologous) genes in insects and in vertebrates produce an inversion in the development of the nervous system.
ScreenTalk 2009
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(in the jargon orthologous) genes in insects and in vertebrates produce an inversion in the development of the nervous system.
ScreenTalk 2009
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(in the jargon orthologous) genes in insects and in vertebrates produce an inversion in the development of the nervous system.
ScreenTalk 2009
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Introns from orthologous genes and with the same position relative to the two coding sequences were defined as orthologous introns.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jiang Zhu et al. 2010
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Of these, 2,458 were identified as orthologous between
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Takao Kasuga et al. 2009
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N. crassa and C. globosum were called orthologous only when three-species reciprocal blast searches identified genes shared among the three species with the percentage of protein identity between the homologs being higher between
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Takao Kasuga et al. 2009
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Do orthologous gene phylogenies really support treethinking?
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Do orthologous gene phylogenies really support treethinking?
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