When orthologous proteins were compared between these two populations, the same pattern emerged — proteins from the smaller populations were more flawed than those from the free - living bacteria of the same species.
Not exact matches
According to Pepper, «A problem arises
when our computational methods accidentally align DNA regions that are duplicated within the genomes of the plants being studied, rather than mapping the
orthologous regions between the plants.»
Rapidly diverging short genes, even
when they are evolutionarily
orthologous to genes in other species, may be nearly impossible to classify as such.