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APOBEC1, for example, is involved in the C→U editing of apolipoprotein B mRNA (therein christening the family), while another family member, the activation-induced deaminase, has a vital role in adaptive immunity in that it assists in the diversification of antibodies.
In the ravishing Lady in Blue of 1874, the adaptive model Emma Dobigny (a favorite of Degas as well) shows off a cascade of blue cloth--she's a waterfall in repose.
At the host level, most studies of the selection pressures acting on immune system genes have concentrated on genes implicated in the adaptive immune response against microbial pathogens, particularly those producing antibodies (Sitnikova and Nei 1998; Sumiyama et al.
These adaptive differences presumably optimize the proteins to operate at maximum efficiency in the niches that their respective organisms occupy.
This is consistent with previous work suggesting that adaptive changes are difficult to find using the strict K a > K s criterion and that even documented cases of positive selection can be missed using this technique alone [ 6, 10, 11, 12, 13].