Causes of molecular convergence and parallelism in protein evolution

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 239-250

  Storz, Jay F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

EPISTASIS; FITNESS; GENETIC BACKGROUND; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS;

EID: 84961221634     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2016.11     Document Type: Review

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