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ArticleJournal of biosciences2014

Biochemistry and evolutionary biology: two disciplines that need each other?

Athel Cornish-Bowden, Juli Pereto, Maria Luz Cardenas

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Article in Journal of biosciences, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Athel Cornish-BowdenUnite de Bioenergetique et Ingenierie des Proteines, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix-Marseille Universite, 31 chemin Joseph-Aiguier, 13402 Marseille Cedex 20, France, acornish@imm.cnrs.fr.
Juli Pereto
Maria Luz Cardenas

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biochemical information has been crucial for the development of evolutionary biology. On the one hand, the sequence information now appearing is producing a huge increase in the amount of data available for phylogenetic analysis; on the other hand, and perhaps more fundamentally, it allows understanding of the mechanisms that make evolution possible. Less well recognized, but just as important, understanding evolutionary biology is essential for understanding many details of biochemistry that would otherwise be mysterious, such as why the structures of NAD and other coenzymes are far more complicated than their functions would seem to require. Courses of biochemistry should thus pay attention to the essential role of evolution in selecting the molecules of life.

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