Wednesday 18 November 2020

Small differences, big impact: A Hox paradigm for studying protein evolution

In a new study, researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have identified a handful of variations in an amino acid sequence critical for retaining the ancestral function of a gene over the course of 600 million years of evolution.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-11-small-differences-big-impact-hox.html