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Extensive parallelism in protein evolution.
Biology direct - 16 Aug 2007
Bazykin Georgii A, Kondrashov Fyodor A, Brudno Michael, Poliakov Alexander, Dubchak Inna, Kondrashov Alexey S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Independently evolving lineages mostly accumulate different changes, which leads to their gradual divergence. However, parallel accumulation of identical changes is also common, especially in traits with only a small number of possible states. RESULTS: We characterize parallelism in evolution of coding sequences in three four-species sets of genomes of mammals, Drosophila, and yeasts. Each such set...
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