The structural basis of molecular adaptation
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The structural basis of molecular adaptation.
The study of molecular adaptation has long been fraught with difficulties, not the least of which is identifying out of hundreds of amino acid replacements those few directly responsible for major adaptations. Six studies are used to illustrate how phylogenies, site-directed mutagenesis, and a knowledge of protein structure combine to provide much deeper insights into the adaptive process than ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Biology and Evolution
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0737-4038,1537-1719
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025932