JAMES SUTTON

(GQR93) Buffered by speed, unmasked by stress: how a photosynthetic antenna hides mutational variation

Cryptic genetic variation—differences that do nothing in one environment and matter in another—is a central idea in evolutionary genetics, but it is rarely traced to a physical mechanism. We traceone in the Fenna–Matthews–Olson (FMO) protein, the antenna that passes excitation energy to thereaction centre in green sulf...