Neutral evolution on mammalian protein surfaces.

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Because of their low effective population sizes, natural selection is expected to have reduced effectiveness in organisms such as mammals. By comparing the amino acid substitution rates between mammalian protein surfaces and interiors, it was found that almost a third of the proteins surveyed failed to reject the null hypothesis of neutral substitutions among surface residues. Proteins with such partly neutral...

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