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Nature Genetics  37, 9 - 10 (2005)
doi:10.1038/ng0105-9

In search of the limits of evolution

Fyodor A Kondrashov

Fyodor A. Kondrashov is at the Center for Population Biology, Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California at Davis, Davis, 95616, USA. kondrashov@ucdavis.edu

Negative trade-offs are thought to be a pervasive phenomenon and to inhibit evolution at all levels. New evidence shows that at the molecular level, there may be no trade-offs preventing the emergence of an enzyme with multiple functions.

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