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. 2003 Jul;34(3):264-6.
doi: 10.1038/ng1181.

Convergent evolution of gene circuits

Gavin C Conant  1 , Andreas Wagner
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Convergent evolution of gene circuits

Gavin C Conant et al. Nat Genet. 2003 Jul.

Abstract

Convergent evolution is a potent indicator of optimal design. We show here that convergent evolution occurs in genetic networks. Specifically, we show that multiple types of transcriptional regulation circuitry in Escherichia coli and the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have evolved independently and not by duplication of one or a few ancestral circuits.

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