Events of gene fusion have been reported in several organisms. However, the role of gene fusion as part of new gene origination remains unknown. Evolutionary new genes, fused from more than two parental genes, can duck out of the detrimental step of tardy point mutation evolution and have been shown to be critical in the understanding of phenotypic evolution.
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