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  1. Wray, GA, The evolutionary significance of cis-regulatory mutations., Nature reviews. Genetics, vol. 8 no. 3 (March, 2007), pp. 206-216, ISSN 1471-0056 [17304246], [doi]
    (last updated on 2024/03/28)

    Abstract:
    For decades, evolutionary biologists have argued that changes in cis-regulatory sequences constitute an important part of the genetic basis for adaptation. Although originally based on first principles, this claim is now empirically well supported: numerous studies have identified cis-regulatory mutations with functionally significant consequences for morphology, physiology and behaviour. The focus has now shifted to considering whether cis-regulatory and coding mutations make qualitatively different contributions to phenotypic evolution. Cases in which parallel mutations have produced parallel trait modifications in particular suggest that some phenotypic changes are more likely to result from cis-regulatory mutations than from coding mutations.


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