Proto-genes and de novo gene birth

Putatively Noncoding Transcripts Show Extensive Association with Ribosomes

(2011) Benjamin A. Wilson et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Cryptic genetic variation promotes rapid evolutionary adaptation in an RNA enzyme

(2011) Eric J. Hayden et al.   NATURE

The evolutionary origin of orphan genes

(2011) Diethard Tautz et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

High-Resolution View of the Yeast Meiotic Program Revealed by Ribosome Profiling

(2011) G. A. Brar et al.   SCIENCE

De Novo Origin of Human Protein-Coding Genes

(2011) Dong-Dong Wu et al.   PLoS Genetics

Protein Homeostasis and the Phenotypic Manifestation of Genetic Diversity: Principles and Mechanisms

(2010) Daniel F. Jarosz et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Composition bias and the origin of ORFan genes

(2010) Inbal Yomtovian et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Relaxed Purifying Selection and Possibly High Rate of Adaptation in Primate Lineage-Specific Genes

(2010) James J. Cai et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Young proteins experience more variable selection pressures than old proteins

(2010) A. Vishnoi et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Origins, evolution, and phenotypic impact of new genes

(2010) H. Kaessmann   GENOME RESEARCH

Codon usage is associated with the evolutionary age of genes in metazoan genomes

(2009) Yosef Prat et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Darwinian alchemy: Human genes from noncoding DNA

(2009) A. Siepel   GENOME RESEARCH

Identifying and Quantifying Orphan Protein Sequences in Fungi

(2009) Diana Ekman et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The universal distribution of evolutionary rates of genes and distinct characteristics of eukaryotic genes of different apparent ages

(2009) Y. I. Wolf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genome-Wide Analysis in Vivo of Translation with Nucleotide Resolution Using Ribosome Profiling

(2009) N. T. Ingolia et al.   SCIENCE

More than just orphans: are taxonomically-restricted genes important in evolution?

(2009) Konstantin Khalturin et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

De Novo Origination of a New Protein-Coding Gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

(2008) J. Cai et al.   GENETICS

Revisiting the Saccharomyces cerevisiae predicted ORFeome

(2008) Q.-R. Li et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The Transcriptional Landscape of the Yeast Genome Defined by RNA Sequencing

(2008) U. Nagalakshmi et al.   SCIENCE