Adaptive Protein Evolution in Animals and the Effective Population Size Hypothesis
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Adaptive Protein Evolution in Animals and the Effective Population Size Hypothesis
The rate at which genomes adapt to environmental changes and the prevalence of adaptive processes in molecular evolution are two controversial issues in current evolutionary genetics. Previous attempts to quantify the genome-wide rate of adaptation through amino-acid substitution have revealed a surprising diversity of patterns, with some species (e.g. Drosophila) experiencing a very high adapt...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Genetics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1553-7404
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005774