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Nature Genetics  35, 118 - 119 (2003)
doi:10.1038/ng1003-118

Evolution thinks modular

Alessandro Vespignani

Alessandro Vespignani is at the Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Batiment 210, Universite de Paris-Sud, 91405 ORSAY Cedex, France. Alessandro.Vespignani@th.u-psud.fr

Groups of interacting proteins define functional modules that govern a cell's activity. A new study suggests that specific interaction motifs and their constituents are highly conserved across species, identifying potential functional modules used in the evolutionary process.

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