Determinants of the rate of protein sequence evolution

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 409-420

  Zhang, Jianzhi ^a   Yang, Jian Rong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; DNA; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CODON; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NATURAL SELECTION; PLEIOTROPY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; THEORETICAL STUDY; ANIMAL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEINS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84931575424     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3950     Document Type: Review

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