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Strong Selection Significantly Increases Epistatic Interactions in the Long-Term Evolution of a Protein

Epistatic interactions between residues determine a protein’s adaptability and shape its evolutionary trajectory. When a protein experiences a changed environment, it is under strong selection to find a peak in the new fitness landscape. It has been shown that strong selection increases epistatic in...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Aditi, Adami, Christoph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4814079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27028897
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005960