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Thus, an evolving protein can initially acquire increased fitness for a new function without losing its original function.
"The visual cortex, deprived of visual input, is still good neural real estate, available and clamoring for a new function".
Any evolutionary process that involves co-opting a trait for a new function results in an exaptation.
In his renowned treatise On the Ratios of Velocities in Motions, Bradwardine included most of Kilvington's arguments for a new function describing the relation of motive power and resistance.
This greatly facilitates the specialization of an organ for a new function because it does not compromise previous functions for the gene, does not require gene duplication and divergence (though this remains an important process in its own right), and may involve little more than a quantitative change in the amount or localization of the gene's protein product.
This is similar to the idea that new functions can be generated by gene duplications, where a gene is duplicated and one copy is used for a new function while the old copy maintains its function [106].
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Promiscuity can be the starting point for the evolution of a new function [ 49, 50].
In the absence of prophetic powers, one cannot use the potential for creating a new function as the basis for claiming that a certain genomic element is functional.
The occurrence of trpB2 outside trp operons argues for either a new function or a broader specificity.
Surface support ships and deepwater submersibles were moving into position to remove that well's malfunctioning blowout preventer and prepare it for a new, functioning blowout preventer to be installed the next day.
A new function for nonsense-mediated mRNA-decay factors.
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