Before bio-inspired roboticists call me a turncoat, I am only saying that my experience with bio-inspiration projects has taught me that using biology as inspiration, rather than a blueprint, will be more successful than attempts at duplication.
"Since the apparent molecular weight of the subunits so obtained is found to be close to half that of the intact molecule, it may be further concluded that the subunits of the DNA molecule which are conserved at duplication are single, continuous structures.
In this way, potential attempts at duplication could be detected (authors having submitted their manuscript to another journal (and getting published) in addition to submitting to UfL).
Hidden paralogy is always a concern when investigating plant nuclear genes, but this likely would only make convergence more difficult, generating uncertainty and lowering ESS at duplication nodes.
In the current study, we look at duplication and loss patterns across a large genetic dataset to ask if genes in our dataset tend to duplicate and be lost in tandem, showing patterns of co-duplication/loss.
Microhomology at duplication and deletion junctions has been a defining feature in numerous studies involving rearrangements associated with diseases such as PMD and MECP2 associated developmental delay [ Carvalho et al., 2009; Woodward et al., 2005].
