New structural variation in evolutionary searches of RNA neutral networks

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dc.creatorSumedha
dc.creatorMartin, Olivier C
dc.creatorWagner, Andreas
dc.date2006-12-15
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dc.descriptionRNA secondary structure is an important computational model to understand how genetic variation maps into phenotypic (structural) variation. Evolutionary innovation in RNA structures is facilitated by neutral networks, large connected sets of RNA sequences that fold into the same structure. Our work extends and deepens previous studies on neutral networks. First, we show that even the 1-mutant neighborhood of a given sequence (genotype) G0 with structure (phenotype) P contains many structural variants that are not close to P. This holds for biological and generic RNA sequences alike. Second, we analyze the relation between new structures in the 1-neighborhoods of genotypes Gk that are only a moderate Hamming distance k away from G0, and the structure of G0 itself, both for biological and for generic RNA structures. Third, we analyze the relation between mutational robustness of a sequence and the distances of structural variants near this sequence. Our findings underscore the role of neutral networks in evolutionary innovation, and the role that high robustness can play in diminishing the potential for such innovation.
dc.descriptionto be published in Biosystems
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0612028
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0612028
dc.identifierBiosystems 90, 475-485(2007)
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/146359
dc.subjectPopulations and Evolution
dc.titleNew structural variation in evolutionary searches of RNA neutral networks
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