Multiplicity of phenotypes and RNA evolution.

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Motivation Motoo Kimura's neutral theory stipulates that evolution is predominantly driven by neutral mutations. RNA, realizing both genotype (its linear sequence of nucleotides) as well as phenotype (its folded secondary structure) represents a particularly well suited test bed for studying neutrality. This leads to neutral networks of RNA secondary structures, i.e. sets of sequences all of which folding into a...

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