pseudogenizations

A form of pseudogenization — The conversion of a gene into a pseudogene.

Scrabble 30

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of pseudogenization

    This strategy showed that 15 duplications, 11 losses and 4 pseudogenizations may have occurred during the evolution of 10 ancestral genes (LIP2, LIP4, LIP5, LIP8, LIP9, LIP10, LIP13, LIP16, LIP18 and LIP18b).

    2015 November 19, “Comprehensive Analysis of a Yeast Lipase Family in the Yarrowia Clade”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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