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The evolutionary origin of orphan genes
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- 736
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Online attention
- 13 tweeters
- 6 blogs
- 1 Facebook pages
- 1 Google+ users
- 3 news outlets
- 6 Wikipedia page
- 915 Mendeley
- 24 Citeulike
This article is in the 97th percentile (ranked 3,401st) of the 146,079 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals and the 97th percentile (ranked 1st) of the 37 tracked articles of a similar age in Nature Reviews Genetics
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Mentions in news and blogs
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Orphan genes, and the problem they pose for evolution
Sign of the Times -
Now There’s A Mysterious Virus In Brazil
The Daily Caller -
Gene Birth, de novo
biobabel -
Origin of de novo genes in humans
Sandwalk -
Making Genes from Scratch? Eukaryotes do...
Small Things Considered -
Losing the Forest by Fixating on the Trees — A Response to Venema’s Critique of Undeniable
Evolution News & Views -
About Orphan Genes — What’s the Big Problem for Evolution?
Evolution News & Views
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