Evolution, Molecular

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The process of cumulative change at the level of DNA; RNA; and PROTEINS, over successive generations.

Descriptor ID	D019143
MeSH Number(s)	G05.045.250 G16.075.250
Concept/Terms	Evolution, Molecular Evolution, Molecular Genetic Evolution Evolution, Genetic Molecular Evolution

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Evolution, Molecular".

Biological Sciences [G]
Genetic Phenomena [G05]
Biological Evolution [G05.045]
Evolution, Molecular [G05.045.250]
Biological Phenomena [G16]
Biological Evolution [G16.075]
Evolution, Molecular [G16.075.250]

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Evolution, Molecular
Mutation Rate

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Bar chart showing 278 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 21 publications in 2007

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	0	3	3
1997	1	0	1
1998	0	3	3
1999	4	2	6
2000	0	3	3
2001	1	3	4
2002	2	5	7
2003	6	4	10
2004	3	8	11
2005	6	4	10
2006	10	6	16
2007	9	12	21
2008	2	2	4
2009	3	7	10
2010	5	6	11
2011	6	1	7
2012	4	8	12
2013	7	8	15
2014	14	5	19
2015	3	7	10
2016	9	6	15
2017	5	6	11
2018	7	5	12
2019	5	2	7
2020	3	9	12
2021	5	5	10
2022	2	4	6
2023	4	3	7
2024	2	3	5
2025	3	4	7
2026	2	1	3

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Bourgikos E, Dellicour S, Lemey P, Feriancek NM, Bransfield AB, Breban MI, Misencik MJ, Petruff TA, Shepard JJ, Andreadis TG, Anderson JF, Ngo KA, Maffei JG, Dupuis AP, Rich SM, Xu G, Sakolsky G, Price KJ, Metzger ML, Suchard MA, Lopes R, G?mbaro F, Carlson CJ, Baele G, Ciota AT, Vogels CBF, Hill V, Armstrong PM, Grubaugh ND. Evolutionary history of Jamestown Canyon virus reveals complex multi-vector ecology. Curr Biol. 2026 May 04; 36(9):2343-2356.e7.

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Batt? A, Bosch-Guiteras N, Pons C, Ota M, Lopes M, Sharma S, Tellini N, Paltenghi C, Conti M, Kan KT, Ho UL, Wiederkehr M, Barraud J, Ashe M, Aloy P, Liti G, Chabes A, Parts L, van Leeuwen J. The modifiers that cause changes in gene essentiality. Cell Syst. 2026 Apr 15; 17(4):101515.

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Lamb KD, Hughes J, Lytras S, Young F, Koci O, Herzig JC, Lovell SC, Grove J, Yuan K, Robertson DL. From single-sequences to evolutionary trajectories: protein language models capture the evolutionary potential of SARS-CoV-2. Nat Commun. 2026 Feb 19; 17(1).

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Wani KA, Pukkila-Worley R. Evolutionarily ancient functions of enzymatic TIR proteins in innate immunity. Trends Immunol. 2025 06; 46(6):441-454.

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Youssef N, Gurev S, Ghantous F, Brock KP, Jaimes JA, Thadani NN, Dauphin A, Sherman AC, Yurkovetskiy L, Soto D, Estanboulieh R, Kotzen B, Notin P, Kollasch AW, Cohen AA, Dross SE, Erasmus J, Fuller DH, Bjorkman PJ, Lemieux JE, Luban J, Seaman MS, Marks DS. Computationally designed proteins mimic antibody immune evasion in viral evolution. Immunity. 2025 Jun 10; 58(6):1411-1421.e6.

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Pekar JE, Lytras S, Ghafari M, Magee AF, Parker E, Wang Y, Ji X, Havens JL, Katzourakis A, Vasylyeva TI, Suchard MA, Hughes AC, Hughes J, Rambaut A, Robertson DL, Dellicour S, Worobey M, Wertheim JO, Lemey P. The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. Cell. 2025 Jun 12; 188(12):3167-3183.e18.

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Yu T, Blyton MBJ, Abajorga M, Koppetsch BS, Ho S, Xu B, Hu Z, Luban J, Chappell K, Weng Z, Theurkauf WE. Evolution of KoRV-A transcriptional silencing in wild koalas. Cell. 2025 Apr 17; 188(8):2081-2093.e16.

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Cacchione S, Cenci G, Dion-C?t? AM, Barbash DA, Raffa GD. Maintaining Telomeres without Telomerase in Drosophila: Novel Mechanisms and Rapid Evolution to Save a Genus. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2025 03 03; 17(3).

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Lytras S, Lamb KD, Ito J, Grove J, Yuan K, Sato K, Hughes J, Robertson DL. Pathogen genomic surveillance and the AI revolution. J Virol. 2025 02 25; 99(2):e0160124.

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Jordano-Raya M, Schrader CE, Ariza RR, Rold?n-Arjona T, C?rdoba-Ca?ero D. Divergent evolution of opposite base specificity and single-stranded DNA activity in animal and plant AP endonucleases. Nucleic Acids Res. 2025 01 07; 53(1).

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