Figure 1From: The rarity of gene shuffling in conserved genesIdentifying gene shuffling. (a) Gene shuffling and how it changes gene structure. The three scenarios of 'domain insertion' represent insertions of domains from gene 2 into gene 1. The reciprocal insertions (gene 1 into gene 2) are not shown. (b) Distinguishing true from spurious recombination events. In a spurious recombination event, reference genome R1 has two separate genes, where both T and R2 have a single, shuffled gene. The most parsimonious explanation for this observation is that the shuffled gene was present in R1 but was lost since R1's divergence from T.Back to article page