Effects of metabolic rate on protein evolution
Effects of metabolic rate on protein evolution is a scholarly work by Michael W McCoy, Andrew P Allen, and James F. Gillooly, published in 2007 in ''Biology Letters''. The main subjects of the publication include biology, effective population size, mutation, energetics, protein evolution, evolution, molecular evolution, population, evolutionary dynamics, adaptation, natural selection, selection (genetic algorithm), metabolic ecology, evolutionary biology, mutation rate, population genetics, rate of evolution, genetics, neutral theory of molecular evolution, basal metabolism, ecology, and phylogenetics. Data also show that the ratio of non-synonymous to synonymous nucleotide substitution is independent of body size, and thus presumably of effective population size.