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The metaphor for organismal evolution that underlies a natural taxonomic system is a strictly bifurcating tree of species.
Genome duplication events generate a duplicate for every gene in the genome, representing a huge opportunity for a step-change in organismal complexity.
The most straightforward version of this type of analysis, to which we hereinafter refer to as 'genome-tree' building, involves scaling-up the traditional tree-building approach and analyzing the phylogenetic trees for multiple gene families (in principle, all families represented in many genomes), in an attempt to derive a consensus, 'organismal' phylogeny [ 3 4 5 ] . However, because of the wide spread of horizontal gene transfer and lineage-specific gene loss, at least in the prokaryotic world, comparison of trees for different families and consensus derivation may become highly problematic [ 6 7 ] . Probably due to all these problems, a pessimistic conclusion has been reached that prokaryotic phylogeny might not be reconstructable from protein sequences, at least with current phylogenetic methods [ 4 ] .
The CASP results indicate that structure prediction methods have matured to a point where they can be applied on a genome-wide scale, and that these structures can be used with novel but straight-forward approaches to annotate and understand function [ 54 55 60 61 ] . The resulting models and annotations, when combined with other genomic/proteomic data, including that from gene expression arrays [ 62 ] , genome-wide two-hybrid experiments [ 63 ] , and other proteomics studies [ 64 ] , will provide us with a dynamic picture of organismal structure, function, and evolution [ 65 ] .
Duplicate gene evolution has most likely played a substantial role in both the rapid changes in organismal complexity apparent in deep evolutionary splits and the diversification of more closely related species.
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