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At least one third of the singletons in our gene index contain intact ORFs, and are predominantly histones, G-protein receptors, olfactory receptors, and cytokines or their homologs/paralogs.
Multiple paralogs of both H-rev107 and NSE2 are seen in vertebrates, suggesting some functional diversification of these subgroups.
trp genes are ancient paralogs of a dispersed set of trp genes engaged in primary biosynthesis.
In the first case, the homologs coexisting in one organism are xenologs, whereas in the latter case, they are paralogs.
However, it was argued that, as natural selection does not 'know' which duplicated gene should be under selection and which is free of selective constraint, both paralogs experience a period of relaxed selection and accelerated evolution.