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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.
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].