admiral_ju00 Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 Since this is a fairly common discussion and or interest, I thought this might be an interesting read for those that are curious. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040527/01/ PS. Not sure if this is supposed to be in the news section or not, but since my last erroneous go at it, I'm feeling a bit reluctant of placing it there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skye Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 It doesn't really surprise me, even with small % differences of genetic sequences, you would expect most genes to vary (in this case 83%) because these small differences should be spread evenly. According to the paper, there's 2-3% genes that have changed enough to say they have 'adaptively radiated', and so stating that the 1.2% sequence difference has a big effect in terms of protein structure it doesn't really seem backed up if only 2-3% of genes show significant adaptive radiation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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