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Fig. 3

From: Sea shell diversity and rapidly evolving secretomes: insights into the evolution of biomineralization

Fig. 3

Potential evolutionary modes acting on SMPs. Three different evolutionary modes could explain the diversity of SMPs. a Domain/motif shuffling and duplication. b Domain/motif recruitment. c Replication slippage. This mode could produce the expansion or contraction of sequence repeats. In this case, the amino acids in red are inserted by replication slippage of codons

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Frontiers in Zoology

ISSN: 1742-9994