CONVERGENT EVOLUTION. “The cytosolic serine racemase of mammals…is likely to be an example of convergent evolution: it catalyses a reaction similar to the alanine racemase in bacteria, but this activity has evolved independently via a separate protein lineage, and probably emerged long after the divergence of prokaryotes and eukaryotes.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022