Stephens, Kulczyk & Bhattacharya suggest that dark genes (those with no ascribable biological function) in stony corals originated via bursts of lineage-specific duplication, often from genes with known functions.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag072

📷 Erin Chille / Debashish Bhattacharya

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