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Using comparative sequence analyses, we can identify proteins that may have been subject to positive darwinian selection. To test these statistical results, it is important to develop

functional assays and identify amino-acid changes that are responsible for the adaptation of organisms to specific environments. One of the two duplicated pancreatic ribonuclease genes of a

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