Monte Carlo simulation of genome viability with paralog replacement.

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Recent analyses of genome content have revealed that many single functions, even in haploid organisms, can be executed by more than one gene. As a result, experimental disruption of many individual genes does not exert lethal effects on the organism or even any visible change in the phenotype of the organism with a knockedout gene. Our analysis shows that such genetic redundancy allows for an appreciably higher...

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