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Common Ancestry Limits Protein Sequence Exploration, Computational Study Shows

Tuesday, March 31, 2026Savannah WiegelView original

Protein evolution remains tightly constrained by ancestral starting points. By comparing real protein families with simulated evolution, researchers reveal why natural diversity occupies only a narrow region of sequence space.

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