Identical characters in different lineages of East Asian cyprinids may represent adaptive convergence.
For example, previous studies have described that cellular fates such as differentiation, growth, quiescence, or apoptosis may represent the convergence of stochastic cellular program onto a small set of common self-stabilizing "attractors" states [28] [30].
The capacity of PBA to function as both a small molecule chaperone and an HDAC inhibitor may represent a convergence of biological activities that vests it with a unique therapeutic potential.
While this sequence redundancy may represent a convergence of knowledge towards the Earth's proteome [1] (with the caveat of possible bias in the niches and organisms that are being sequenced) from the point of view of finding networks of covarying residues in multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) it marks an increase in the number of datasets that can be analyzed.
It has been shown that plumage characters under strong selection may evolve rapidly [ 41], and in some cases may represent evolutionary convergence instead of reflecting shared phylogenetic or phylogeographic history [ 42].
If the molecular data has correctly placed Saimiri, then this species shares a common ancestor with Cebus after the divergence of the marmosets and tamarins, and the 2/15 association may represent a convergence.
The two groups of morph-associated alleles may share some changes due to a common ancestry or alternatively, if these non-synonymous changes have a direct functional role, this might represent convergence between the two alleles.
We conclude that dysfunction of these pathways may represent a point of convergence in the pathophysiology of several forms of inherited dystonia.
This suggests that motifs may represent evolutionary conservation or convergence driven by similar computational constraints.
PLC-ε1 may represent a point of convergence of signalling via both G protein-coupled and catalytic receptors.
