Entrenchment and contingency in neutral protein evolution with epistasis
Lisa Schmelkin, Vincenzo Carnevale, Allan Haldane, Jeffrey P. Townsend, Sarah Chung, Ronald M. Levy, Sudhir Kumar
The paper shows that protein evolution with epistasis and purifying selection does not lead to entrenchment, and that rate variation is due to epistasis, not historical contingency.
bioRxiv · Jan 9, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology