A latent capacity for evolutionary innovation through exaptation in metabolic systems

Aditya Barve and Andreas Wagner ()
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Aditya Barve: Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences, Building Y27, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Andreas Wagner: Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences, Building Y27, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland

Nature, 2013, vol. 500, issue 7461, 203-206

Abstract: A computational analysis of the ability of a metabolic reaction network to synthesize all biomass from a single source of carbon and energy shows that when such networks are required to be viable on one particular carbon source, they are typically also viable on multiple other carbon sources that were not targets of selection.

Date: 2013
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