In article <1994May24.110328.1 at molbiol.ox.ac.uk>, birney at molbiol.ox.ac.uk
wrote:
> Here is a neat example of what I think is convergent
> evolution: the RNP-1 motif (an octamer) found in RNA binding motifs was
> also shown to have significant matches to the Y box transcrutpition factors
> and cold shock proteins in bacteria (I think that's right).......
> So here's an example where sequence analysis really did seem to
> pick up convergent evolution, which I'm quite impressed by.
Heh. So far, that's *three* different answers, *each*
intelligent-sounding, to my question.
Looks like I'm going to have to do some <gasp> original thinking on my
own. The horror, the horror... ;^)
--Erich Schwarz
