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Hypothesized mechanism for the origin of a new paralog in the Mojave Desert population. Two tandem duplicates, GLEANR_897 (solid) and GLEANR_896 (shaded), are indicated on a chromosome. A gene conversion event results in a novel allele GLEANR_897. Unequal crossing over between an ancestral and a converted chromosome then results in a novel tandem duplicate. The duplicated chromosome is then fixed in the Mojave Desert.
