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Far less attention has been directed toward the less specific innate (‘nonadaptive’) immune response, even though this response requires a wide array of genes and acts as the front line of immune defence (Box 1).
Subsequently, codon usage in a few species has been extensively characterized, and linked causally to a wide variety of both adaptive and nonadaptive factors including tRNA abundance [ 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14], gene expression level [ 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23], local compositional biases [ 24, 25, 26, 27, 28], rates and patterns of mutation [ 29, 30, 31, 32], protein composition [ 33, 34, 35, 36], protein structure [ 37, 38, 39], translation optimization [ 40, 41, 42] (but see [ 43]), gene length [ 44, 45, 46, 47], and mRNA secondary structure [ 48, 49, 50, 51, 52].
Differences ought to reflect either adaptations for various environmental conditions or nonadaptive (not maladaptive) traits that appeared in conjunction with genetic drift, quantum speciation, or punctuated equilibrium.