Evaluating evolutionary constraint on the rapidly evolving gene matK using protein composition.

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The rapidly evolving chloroplast matK gene has nucleotide and amino acid substitution rates suggestive of progression toward a pseudogene state. However, molecular evidence has demonstrated that matK is expressed and functional. We explore in this paper the underlying factors behind the mode and tempo of matK evolution that allow this protein coding gene to accommodate such elevated rates of substitution and yet...

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