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Adaptive ratchets and the evolution of molecular complexity

2021-11-20

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Biological systems have evolved to amazingly complex states, yet we do not understand in general how evolution operates to generate increasing genetic and functional complexity. Molecular recognition sites are short genome segments or peptides binding a cognate recognition target of sufficient sequence similarity. Such sites are simple, ubiquitous modules of sequence information, cellular function, and evolution....

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Literature Corpus work: 1bd9cada-679c-5e1e-b674-16e5a17c36ca
DOI: 10.1101/2021.11.18.469165

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