Graur reported a highly significant correlation between the nonsynonymous substitution rate ( Ka ) and amino acid composition in mammalian proteins ( R 2 : ~0.38), and thus he proposed that composition and changeability of amino acids are the main factor determining evolutionary rate rather than other factors such as functionality 11 .
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Amino acid compositions contribute to the proteins' evolution under the influence of their abundances and genomic GC content.
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