Comment by echelon
2 days ago
Gene dose increases in plants lead to bigger vegetables and fruiting bodies. We've taken advantage of this during domestication of several species.
Gene dose increases in animals lead to total dysfunction and death in embryonic development.
There are species of fish that have gone through whole genome duplication.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02299-z#:~:text=P...
Dosis sola facit venenum?
dose is such a weird term for "copies"
It’s quite… historical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_dosage
Historical-sounding, maybe? It's still used in the literature:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32144-z
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48960-4
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10757140/
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