Figure 3
From: Acquisition of new function through gene duplication in the metallocarboxypeptidase family
Gene synteny suggests that tandem CPO duplicates were formed through unequal crossing over. Gene synteny information was collected from Ensembl. (a) Aebp1, CPZ, and cpxm1 gene paralogs were found on different chromosomes within large blocks of common genes, suggesting a largescale duplication event. (b) CPO gene paralogs were always found in tandem, suggesting unequal crossing-over errors. (c) CPO gene paralogs in Xenopus tropicalis were found within a gamma crystallin gene cluster and just upstream of a transposase-like gene.
