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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.PE2005★ 883 cited
Why highly expressed proteins evolve slowly
D. Allan Drummond, Jesse D. Bloom, Christoph Adami +2
Much recent work has explored molecular and population-genetic constraints on the rate of protein sequence evolution. The best predictor of evolutionary rate is expression level, f…