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Sponges (Porifera) Molecular Model Systems to Study Cellular Differentiation in Metazoa

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Molecular Evolution: Towards the Origin of Metazoa

Part of the book series: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology ((PMSB,volume 21))

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Evolution is a gradual process whereby primarily new genes are formed either by gene duplication (Ohno 1970) or exon shuffling (Gilbert 1978). New proteins can also be produced by overlapping genes, alternative splicing or gene sharing (Li and Graur 1991). These facts imply that (1) proteins found in a given phylum contain elements or modules which are present already in ancestral protein(s) of members of phylogenetically older phyla and (2) that new combinations of such modules create proteins that possess new functions.

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Müller, W.E.G., Wagner, C., Coutinho, C.C., Borojevic, R., Steffen, R., Koziol, C. (1998). Sponges (Porifera) Molecular Model Systems to Study Cellular Differentiation in Metazoa. In: Müller, W.E.G. (eds) Molecular Evolution: Towards the Origin of Metazoa. Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72236-3_4

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