Natural selection promotes antigenic evolvability.

The hypothesis that evolvability - the capacity to evolve by natural selection - is itself the object of natural selection is highly intriguing but remains controversial due in large part to a paucity of direct experimental evidence. The antigenic variation mechanisms of microbial pathogens provide...

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Main Authors: Christopher J Graves, Vera I D Ros, Brian Stevenson, Paul D Sniegowski, Dustin Brisson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3828179?pdf=render