Recombination rate and protein evolution in yeast.

doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-235

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Recombination rate and protein evolution in yeast.

BMC evolutionary biology - 27 Nov 2007

Connallon Tim, Knowles L Lacey

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BACKGROUND: Theory and artificial selection experiments show that recombination can promote adaptation by enhancing the efficacy of natural selection, but the extent to which recombination affects levels of adaptation across the genome is still an open question. Because patterns of molecular evol...

Topics

Evolution, Molecular
Genetic Variation
Genome, Fungal
Mutation
Polymorphism, Genetic
Recombination, Genetic
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

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