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The Standard Genetic Code Facilitates Exploration of the Space of Functional Nucleotide Sequences.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jul 2018
Tripathi Shubham, Deem Michael W
Abstract excerpt
The standard genetic code is well known to be optimized for minimizing the phenotypic effects of single-nucleotide substitutions, a property that was likely selected for during the emergence of a universal code. Given the fitness advantage afforded by high standing genetic diversity in a population in a dynamic environment, it is possible that selection to explore a large fraction of the space of functional...
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