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Suboptimal Intermediates Underlie Evolution of the Bicoid Homeodomain.
Molecular biology and evolution - 19 May 2021
Onal Pinar, Gunasinghe Himari Imaya, Umezawa Kristaley Yui, Zheng Michael, Ling Jia, Azeez Leen, Dalmeus Anecine, Tazin Tasmima, Small Stephen
Abstract excerpt
Changes in regulatory networks generate materials for evolution to create phenotypic diversity. For transcription networks, multiple studies have shown that alterations in binding sites of cis-regulatory elements correlate well with the gain or loss of specific features of the body plan. Less is known about alterations in the amino acid sequences of the transcription factors (TFs) that bind these elements. Here...
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