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Adaptive Evolution and Functional Redesign of Core Metabolic Proteins in Snakes

BACKGROUND: Adaptive evolutionary episodes in core metabolic proteins are uncommon, and are even more rarely linked to major macroevolutionary shifts. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We conducted extensive molecular evolutionary analyses on snake mitochondrial proteins and discovered multiple lines...

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Autores principales: Castoe, Todd A., Jiang, Zhi J., Gu, Wanjun, Wang, Zhengyuan O., Pollock, David D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2376058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18493604
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002201