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Summary: Biol. Lett.
doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0403
Published online
Evolutionary biology
Effects of metabolic rate
on protein evolution
James F. Gillooly1,*, Michael W. McCoy1
and Andrew P. Allen2
1
Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville,
FL 32611, USA
2
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis,
Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
*Author for correspondence (gillooly@zoo.ufl.edu).
Since the modern evolutionary synthesis was
first proposed early in the twentieth century,
attention has focused on assessing the relative
contribution of mutation versus natural selec-
tion on protein evolution. Here we test a model
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