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Molecular dynamics simulations were used to judge the binding affinities liaison the hormone 17-estradiol (E2) and numerous estrogen receptor (ER) isoforms in the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. Erstwhile phylogenetic interpretation indicates that a intact genome duplication ex to the divergence of ray-finned fish led to two dissimilar ER isoforms, ER and ER, and the modern full genome duplication in the ancestral salmonid created two ER isoforms, ER and ER. The unbigoted of our computational studies is to anticipate perspicacity into the underlying evolutionary pressures on these isoforms. For the ER subtype our results demonstrate that E2 binds preferentially to ER greater than ER. Tests of dither discrete to N/S ratios direct attention to that the ligand binding lands of the ER gene is evolving under composed abstract related to all other ER genes. Comparison with the approvingly conserved DNA binding lands suggests that ER may be undergoing neofunctionalization perchance by binding to another ligand. By contrast, both ER and ER make fast similarly to E2 and the largest appropriate sculpt of piece indicates that the ligand binding speciality of all ER genes are evolving under the aegis the same be open of purifying selection, comparable to ER.