Figure 3
From: Phenotypic plasticity can facilitate adaptive evolution in gene regulatory circuits
The more similar two circuit genotypes are, the higher the overlap between their sets of alternative phenotypes. The number k represents the distance (in the number of differing regulatory interactions) between two circuits. C k measures the similarity between the sets of alternative phenotypes produced by the two circuits. The plot shows mean values and the length of error bars represents one standard error. Spearman's ρ = -0.248; p < 2.2 × 10-16. The inset shows that the fraction of genotype pairs that share a given alternative phenotype decreases with k. Data are based on 104 randomly sampled focal circuits with N = 20, c ≈ 0.2, and d= 0.1.