Epistatically interacting substitutions are enriched during adaptive protein evolution.

Most experimental studies of epistasis in evolution have focused on adaptive changes-but adaptation accounts for only a portion of total evolutionary change. Are the patterns of epistasis during adaptation representative of evolution more broadly? We address this question by examining a pair of prot...

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Main Authors: Lizhi Ian Gong, Jesse D Bloom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-05-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4014419?pdf=render