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Gene duplication and subsequent diversification strongly affect phenotypic evolvability and robustness.

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We study the effects of non-determinism and gene duplication on the structure of genotype-phenotype (GP) maps by introducing a non-deterministic version of the Polyomino self-assembly model. This model has previously been used in a variety of contexts to model the assembly and evolution of protein quaternary structure. Firstly, we show the limit of the current deterministic paradigm which leads to built-in anti-correlation between evolvability and robustness at the genotypic level. We develop a set of metrics to measure structural properties of GP maps in a non-deterministic setting and use them to evaluate the effects of gene duplication and subsequent diversification. Our generalized versions of evolvability and robustness exhibit positive correlation for a subset of genotypes. This positive correlation is only possible because non-deterministic phenotypes can contribute to both robustness and evolvability. Secondly, we show that duplication increases robustness and reduces evolvability initially, but that the subsequent diversification that duplication enables has a stronger, inverse effect, greatly increasing evolvability and reducing robustness relative to their original values.

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Polyomino, gene duplication, genotype–phenotype map, self-assembly

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R Soc Open Sci

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2054-5703
2054-5703

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8

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The Royal Society

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Gatsby Charitable Foundation (GAT3395/CCD)
EPSRC (1805372)
EPSRC (1642292)
EPSRC (1642292)