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Proposed evolutionary history of the somatostatin/UII gene family. According to this scenario, UII- and somatostatin-related peptide genes would result from two rounds of gene duplication; i.e., a tandem duplication followed by a segmental duplication. The latter duplication event may coincide with one of the two whole-genome duplications that took place during vertebrate evolution.
