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The results of the present analysis of recent duplications suggest a two-stage evolutionary model of gene duplication: in the first stage, immediately after duplication and during the early phase of their evolution, paralogs are retained and are subject to purifying selection because of the short-term advantage of protein dosage regulation; at a later stage in their evolution, gene duplications are likely to provide a long-term advantage by enabling the creation of new functions.
Likewise, Npu TrpD_2 and Npu TrpD_3 exhibit greater identity with their Asp orthologs than with their Npu paralogs.
In Bacillus subtilis the gene, appropriately enough, has been named aroA, but in Escherichia coli the equivalent function is represented by genes encoding three differentially regulated paralogs.
Chorismate mutase is the focal point of this paper, and Figure 1illustrates that the cytoplasm of S. typhimurium has two paralogs of the Iα family of chorismate mutases denoted AroQ.
Nineteen known loci encode members of the FGF family, of which at least five map near EGF paralogs: FGF1 on 5q31 (approximately 1.5 Mb distal of HEGFL ), FGF2 on 4q25 (approximately 14.