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NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
卷 1, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-016-0045
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- Ambizione program of the Swiss National Science Foundation
- Forschungskredit program of the University of Zurich [FK-14-076, K-74301-04-01]
- University Priority Research Program in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Zurich
- Swiss National Science Foundation [31003A_146137]
The adaptive landscape is an iconic metaphor that pervades evolutionary biology. It was mostly applied in theoretical models until recent years, when empirical data began to allow partial landscape reconstructions. Here, we exhaustively analyse 1,137 complete landscapes from 129 eukaryotic species, each describing the binding affinity of a transcription factor to all possible short DNA sequences. We find that the navigability of these landscapes through single mutations is intermediate to that of additive and shuffled null models, suggesting that binding affinity-and thereby gene expression-is readily fine-tuned via mutations in transcription factor binding sites. The landscapes have few peaks that vary in their accessibility and in the number of sequences they contain. Binding sites in the mouse genome are enriched in sequences found in the peaks of especially navigable landscapes and the genetic diversity of binding sites in yeast increases with the number of sequences in a peak. Our findings suggest that landscape navigability may have contributed to the enormous success of transcriptional regulation as a source of evolutionary adaptations and innovations.
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