Stability-mediated epistasis constrains the evolution of an influenza protein
John Maynard Smith compared protein evolution to the game where one word is converted into another a single letter at a time, with the constraint that all intermediates are words: WORD→WORE→GORE→GONE→GENE. In this analogy, epistasis constrains evolution, with some mutations tolerated only after the...
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2013-05-01
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/00631 |