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ArticleTheory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften2023

A computational investigation of cis-gene regulation in evolution.

Mohammed Mahmud, Mulugeta Bekele, Narayan Behera

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Article in Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Mohammed MahmudDepartment of Physics, Addis Ababa University, P.O.Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Mulugeta BekeleDepartment of Physics, Addis Ababa University, P.O.Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Narayan BeheraDepartment of Applied Physics, Adama Science and Technology University, P. O. Box 1888, Adama, Ethiopia. narayan.behera@astu.edu.et.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6414-6362
Addis Ababa University · ETKempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences · IN

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In biological processes involving gene networks, genes regulate other genes that determine the phenotypic traits. Gene regulation plays an important role in evolutionary dynamics. In a genetic algorithm, a trans-gene regulatory mechanism was shown to speed up adaptation and evolution. Here, we examine the effect of cis-gene regulation on an adaptive system. The model is haploid. A chromosome is partitioned into regulatory loci and structural loci. The regulatory genes regulate the expression and functioning of structural genes via the cis-elements in a probabilistic manner. In the simulation, the change in the allele frequency, the mean population fitness and the efficiency of phenotypic selection are monitored. Cis-gene regulation increases adaption and accelerates the evolutionary process in comparison with the case involving absence of gene regulation. Some special features of the simulation results are as follows. A low ratio of regulatory loci and structural loci gives higher adaptation for fixed total number of loci. Plasticity is advantageous beyond a threshold value. Adaptation is better for large number of total loci when the ratio of regulatory loci to structural loci is one. However, it reaches a saturation beyond which the increase in the total loci is not advantageous. Efficiency of the phenotypic selection is higher for larger value of the initial plasticity.

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Adaptation, PhysiologicalGene Regulatory NetworksPhenotypeCis-gene regulationEvolutionGenetic algorithmPhenotypic plasticityWaddington experiment

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