De novo emergence, existence, and demise of a protein-coding gene in murids.
Jan PetrzilekJosef PasulkaRadek MalikFilip HorvatShubhangini KatarukaHelena FulkaPetr SvobodaPublished in: BMC biology (2022)
While this evolving gene is not showing a clear function in laboratory mice, its documented evolutionary history in Muroidea during the last ~ 40 million years provides a textbook example of how a several common mutation events can support de novo gene formation, evolution of protein-coding capacity, as well as gene's demise.