One of the most common fate of gene duplications is thought to be elimination of one of the duplicate pair [ 58].
Although it has been suggested that gene duplication occurs at a high rate of 0.01/gene/million years, the most common fate of duplicated genes is silencing and loss [ 62].
However, the most common fate of duplicate pairs is that one of the copies becomes a pseudogene by the fixation of deleterious mutations, and will finally be lost in the genome.
However, if gene duplication events are prevalent in plants and the most common fate of retained gene duplicates is a partitioning of gene expression, a large number of Arabidopsis genes that show similarity to genes expressed in the Physcomitrella gametophyte are likely to be paralogs, and not direct descendants of the same genes expressed in the gametophyte of a common ancestor.
And worm, which on the one hand seems the most unlikely word here, is in actuality the most universal — if nothing else, it is the common fate of every one of us to be eaten by the creatures it represents.
The common fate of various contributing factors is microcirculation disturbance.
"Removal,' the most common fate of a missing LLIN, was cited more often in the communities distant from water for washing nets 31% [CI 95%: 28.40-34.14] versus 21% [CI 95%: 18.17-23.17].
Although the most common fate of gene duplicates may be immediate pseudogenization upon arrival, the extraordinary high rates of spontaneous gene duplication likely have a substantial influence on the trajectory of evolution by enabling the origin of discernible numbers of gene substrates for neofunctionalization [ 8].
The most common fate of a duplicated copy, however, is nonfunctionalization (pseudogenization), raising the question of how and why both copies of some duplicates manage to persist as functional entities.
Although mutational inactivation and loss of redundant copies (nonfunctionalization) is the most common fate of one copy of duplicated genes, many duplicate genes are retained after rediploidization.
