Evolutionary coupling between the deleteriousness of gene mutations and the amount of non-coding sequences.

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The phenotypic effects of random mutations depend on both the architecture of the genome and the gene-trait relationships. Both levels thus play a key role in the mutational variability of the phenotype, and hence in the long-term evolutionary success of the lineage. Here, by simulating the evolution of organisms with flexible genomes, we show that the need for an appropriate phenotypic variability induces a...

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