Universal and taxon-specific trends in protein sequences as a function of age
Extant protein-coding sequences span a huge range of ages, from those that emerged only recently to those present in the last universal common ancestor. Because evolution has had less time to act on young sequences, there might be ‘phylostratigraphy’ trends in any properties that evolve slowly with...
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2021-01-01
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/57347 |