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Fitness conferred by replaced amino acids declines with time.
Biology letters - 23 Oct 2012
Naumenko Sergey A, Kondrashov Alexey S, Bazykin Georgii A
Abstract excerpt
The fitness landscape of a locus, the array of fitnesses conferred by its alleles, can be affected by allele replacements at other loci, in the presence of epistatic interactions between loci. In a pair of diverging homologous proteins, the initially high probability that an amino acid replacement in one of them will make it more similar to the other declines with time, implying that the fitness landscapes of...
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