Experimental approaches to evaluate the contributions of candidate protein-coding mutations to phenotypic evolution.

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Identifying mechanisms of molecular adaptation can provide important insights into the process of phenotypic evolution, but it can be exceedingly difficult to quantify the phenotypic effects of specific mutational changes. To verify the adaptive significance of genetically based changes in protein function, it is necessary to document functional differences between the products of derived and wild-type alleles...

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