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The alternative hypothesis - that gene duplications are fixed in a population by positive selection in all organisms - is supported by a combination of evidence of adaptive duplications from many types of living organisms: prokaryotes [ 31, 33, 45, 46, 48, 50, 55, 56], protists [ 35, 58, 59], plants [ 39, 44], fungi [ 43, 49], invertebrates [ 40, 41, 51, 52, 53], non-mammalian vertebrates [ 54], as well as mammalian somatic tissues [ 34, 36, 37, 38].
[ 11] include proteins from animals, plants, fungi and protists, with plants represented in only nine of the 66 subfamilies.
Accordingly, the "Fungi&Plants" and "Protists" buttons reveal the major groups of organisms within their respective groups.
Most of the diversity in GC content within eukaryotes, and hence most of the significance of the regressions, comes from unicellular and multinucleate organisms, including fungi and protists, rather than from the multicellular plants and metazoa.
In this view, the richness of introns in multicellular organisms may primarily reflect the smaller population sizes of these taxa relative to protists, which generally contain few introns.