Suboptimal intermediates underlie evolution of the Bicoid homeodomain
P. Onal, H. I. Gunasinghe, K. Y. Umezawa, M. Zheng, J. Ling, L. Azeez, A. Dalmeus, T. Tazin, S. Small
The paper shows that suboptimal intermediates in the evolution of the Bicoid homeodomain enabled further evolutionary changes through epistatic interactions.
bioRxiv · Aug 20, 2020 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology