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The main goal of the student of evolution is to reconstruct past events leading to the structure of contemporary proteins, from which the relationships which they share with a common ancestor can be defined. A single sequence can give rise to different sequences by speciation and divergence or by gene duplication within a single organism followed by divergence. We shall see examples of these two cases in our survey of the evolution of biosynthetic pathways.
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Cohen, G.N. (2014). Evolution of Biosynthetic Pathways. In: Microbial Biochemistry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8908-0_40
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