Purifying selection enduringly acts on the sequence evolution of highly expressed proteins in Escherichia coli
A. Shibai, H. Kotani, N. Sakata, C. Furusawa, S. Tsuru
This study shows the E-R anticorrelation holds in both past and de novo microevolution in E. coli, confirming ongoing purifying selection on highly expressed genes.
bioRxiv · Mar 2, 2022Evolutionary Biology