Elisabeth Kaltenegger

Feb 28, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Chelsea Smith |Elisabeth Kaltenegger |Jordan Teisher |Abigail J. Moore

AbstractPremise: When enzymes encoded by paralogous genes produce identical specialized metabolites in distantly related plant lineages, it is strong evidence of parallel phenotypic evolution. Inference of phenotypic homology for metabolites produced by orthologous genes is not so straightforward, however, since orthologs may be recruited in parallel into novel pathways.