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Aug 2026
Synthesis cost is a hidden driver of convergent amino acid composition in plastid ribosomal proteins
It is found that the composition shifts ran counter to the expectation of mutational bias but were consistent with the expectation of synthesis cost minimization, which is potentially adaptive for highly expressed PRP.
Arnav Chaudhari, Palash Sethi, Yvemirca Vilbrun et al.
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