Reconstruction of ancestral protein sequences and its applications.

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Published in BMC Evol Biol on September 17, 2004

Authors

Wei Cai1, Jimin Pei, Nick V Grishin

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-9050, USA. wcai@biochem.swmed.edu

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