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Abstract
In a novel evolutionary process, enzymes and stress proteins have undergone direct
gene recruitment as eye lens crystallins in a number of independent events. This may
have allowed a dynamic response to changing visual environment during evolution. In
spite of their diversity, many crystallins may share an origin in essential developmental
processes such as cell elongation.