172 citations · 295 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
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q-bio.PE2007★ 172 cited
Neutral genetic drift can aid functional protein evolution
Jesse D Bloom, Philip A Romero, Zhongyi Lu +1
BACKGROUND: Many of the mutations accumulated by naturally evolving proteins are neutral in the sense that they do not significantly alter a protein's ability to perform its primar…
q-bio.PE2007★ 123 cited
Evolution favors protein mutational robustness in sufficiently large populations
Jesse D. Bloom, Zhongyi Lu, David Chen +3
BACKGROUND: An important question is whether evolution favors properties such as mutational robustness or evolvability that do not directly benefit any individual, but can influenc…