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Both orthologous genes (resulting from a speciation event) and paralogous genes (resulting from gene duplication) can illustrate divergent evolution. Through gene duplication, it is possible for divergent evolution to occur between two genes within a species. Similarities between species that have diverged are due to their common origin, so ...
Genetic divergence will always accompany reproductive isolation, either due to novel adaptations via selection and/or due to genetic drift, and is the principal mechanism underlying speciation. On a molecular genetics level, genetic divergence is due to changes in a small number of genes in a species, resulting in speciation . [ 2 ]
For example, neutral human DNA sequences are approximately 1.2% divergent (based on substitutions) from those of their nearest genetic relative, the chimpanzee, 1.6% from gorillas, and 6.6% from baboons. [10] [11] Genetic sequence evidence thus allows inference and quantification of genetic relatedness between humans and other apes.
Contrast divergent evolution. copulatory behavioral isolation coupling court jester hypothesis cospeciation A type of speciation in which more than two species speciate concurrently due to their ecological associations (e.g. host-parasite interactions). [15] crossbreeding. Also crossing and outbreeding.
An entire gene family may also be lost, or gained through de novo gene birth, by such extensive divergence such that a gene is considered part of a new family, or by horizontal gene transfer. When the number of genes per genome remains relatively constant, this implies that genes are gained and lost at relatively same rates.
Divergent evolution of the duplicated genes of the ancestral TIM barrel would have resulted in the formation of HisA and HisF. Interestingly, this evolutionary model has been experimentally validated using rational protein design and directed evolution .
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Other authors concur that there was a "complex collective genome" [68] at the time of the LUCA, and that horizontal gene transfer was important in the evolution of later groups; [68] Nicolas Glansdorff states that LUCA "was in a metabolically and morphologically heterogeneous community, constantly shuffling around genetic material" and ...