Evidence for compensatory evolution within pleiotropic regulatory elements
Z. Kliesmete, P. Orchard, V. Y. K. Lee, J. Geuder, S. M. Krauss, M. Ohnuki, J. Jocher, B. Vieth, W. Enard, I. Hellmann
The paper investigates how pleiotropy affects the evolution of cis-regulatory elements, finding that more pleiotropic elements show greater conservation in function despite lower sequence conservation.
bioRxiv · Jan 10, 2024Evolutionary Biology