Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Correlated selection on amino acid deletion and replacement in mammalian protein sequences
Y. Zheng, D. Graur, R. B. R. Azevedo
The paper examines the correlation between deletion rates and dN/dS ratios in mammalian protein sequences and finds significant positive correlations not explained by alignment errors or mutation rates.
DOI 10.1007/s00239-018-9853-9