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The trimer is thus an essential part of the architecture of two-domain multi-copper proteins, and mgLAC may be an evolutionary precursor of NIR.
Thus, it is plausible that a simple and ancient PrgI-like protein could be an evolutionary precursor to both the Bcl-2 protein family and PrgI.
King et al. (1988) [10] suggested that grazing resistance to protozoa was an evolutionary precursor of bacterial pathogenicity.
The hypothesis tested is that the C2 photosynthesis pump is an evolutionary precursor in the shift from C3 to C4 photosynthesis (which has happened multiple times).
We used our data to examine the hypothesis that refuge sharing has been an evolutionary precursor to more complex sociality in this lizard species and to reflect on the broader relevance of that hypothesis.
In this study we examined whether any tissue in the basal chordate amphioxus could be considered an evolutionary precursor, or latent homolog[33], of neural crest-derived cartilage.
Lip-smacking has been suggested as an evolutionary precursor to human speech, but Dr. Bergman is the first to have shown primates making complex vocalizations while lip-smacking.
Accordingly, dauer larvae have been suggested as an evolutionary precursor of infective larvae that facilitated the repeated evolution of parasitism (a preadaptation; Dieterich and Sommer 2009).
Although the origins of the mecA gene (the principle component of methicillin resistance in staphylococci) are unknown, a mecA homologue (88% similarity) is ubiquitous in the antibiotic-susceptible S. sciuri, and may be a possible evolutionary precursor of the mecA gene of the MRSA strains.
If phycobilisomes evolved after oxygenic photosynthesis (Fig. 7), the first organism that generated oxygen was not actually a cyanobacterium but an evolutionary precursor.
We conclude that FAD is an evolutionary remnant from an oxidoreductase precursor whose presence is necessary for the structural integrity of FAD−HNLs.
