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Molecular evolution
Tandem duplication
Pieridae
Brassicaceae
Host plant shift
Detoxification
Duplicated genes
Functional diversification
American cockroach
Subfunctionalization
Repeats
Protein
Neofunctionalization
Identification
Relatives
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Biology in Current Contents(R)/Agricultural, Biology & Environmental Sciences Experimental Biology in Current Contents(R)/Life Sciences
Abstract:
Chemical interactions between plants and their insect herbivores provide an excellent opportunity to study the evolution of species interactions on a molecular level. Here, we investigate the molecular evolutionary events that gave rise to a novel detox