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Evolutionary adaptability of biological macromolecules

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The degree of gradualism with which tertiary structure and function of protein changes with stepwise changes in primary structure (assumed to be influenced by redundancy of weak bonding) is both a precondition for and consequence of evolution. The resulting selection for degree of gradualism has implications for a number of structural and functional properties of modern proteins as well as for the significance of neutral (so-called non-Darwinian) phenomena in relation to selection.

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  1. Department of Computer and Communication Sciences, University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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Conrad, M. Evolutionary adaptability of biological macromolecules. J Mol Evol 10, 87–91 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01796137

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