New genes are more likely than expected to emerge full-fledged from a genome`s non-coding regions
(PHYSorg.com Biology)

New genes are more likely to appear on the stage of evolution in full-fledged form rather than gradually take shape through successive stages of `proto genes` that become more and more refined over generations. This is the surprising upshot from research led by Benjamin Wilson and Joanna Masel at the University of Arizona, published as an Advance Online Publication by the scientific journal Nature Ecology & Evolution on April 24.