Adaptation in protein fitness landscapes is facilitated by indirect paths

The structure of fitness landscapes is critical for understanding adaptive protein evolution. Previous empirical studies on fitness landscapes were confined to either the neighborhood around the wild type sequence, involving mostly single and double mutants, or a combinatorially complete subgraph in...

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Main Authors: Wu, Nicholas C, Dai, Lei, Olson, C Anders, Lloyd-Smith, James O, Sun, Ren
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4985287/