The role of lineage-specific gene family expansion in the evolution of eukaryotes.

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Published in Genome Res on July 01, 2002

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Olivier Lespinet1, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin, L Aravind

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1: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.

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