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However, even if TEs can be maintained in populations on a day-to-day basis without providing selective advantage, it does not preclude the possibility that the insertion of TEs in or near genes may, in some instances, be of adaptive advantage.
The presence of the isotype diversity of nAChR ligand binding pocket should allow for the rational design of selective agonists.
Selective pressure by antimicrobial drugs is by far the most important driving force for the development of such resistance.
Despite the slackened selective constraints, mutations can still destroy the incipient functionality of a duplicated gene: for example, by introducing a premature stop codon or a mutation that destroys the structure of a major protein domain.
In general, these competitions in novel environments suggest that mutations that were beneficial in the selective environment may sometimes have positive pleiotropic effects.