Abstract:
:In studies of molecular evolution, the assumption that protein evolution is reversible has often been made, but rarely tested. Here we use a large set of orthologous murid protein coding sequences to perform a simple test of reversibility, and find no evidence to reject the assumption of reversibility in protein evolution.
journal_name
J Mol Evoljournal_title
Journal of molecular evolutionauthors
Smith NG,Eyre-Walker Adoi
10.1007/s002390010176keywords:
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Has Abstractpub_date
2001-05-01 00:00:00pages
467-9issue
5eissn
0022-2844issn
1432-1432journal_volume
52pub_type
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