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With the increasing availability of genomic data, it became clear that numerous gene families have diverged in function through series of duplications [ 14, 15], including many lineage-specific expansions identified in each of the genomes sequenced [ 16, 17, 18, 19].
Although the major events in the evolution of polymerases occurred at very early stages of evolution and LUCA already had an advanced DDRP resembling the extant forms, subsequent lineage-specific elaborations of considerable magnitude have occurred.
We suggest that, in spite of all the complexity brought about by horizontal gene transfer and lineage-specific gene loss, these groups reflect certain evolutionary reality, i.e. the trajectory of evolution for a relatively stable gene core.
Thus there appears to have been a lineage-specific proliferation and dissemination of the SBHM domains in bacteria.
(2004) in this issue of PLoS Biology identifies over 3% of around 30,000 genes as having undergone lineage-specific copy number changes among five hominoid (humans plus the great apes) species.