Phenotypic plasticity can facilitate adaptive evolution in gene regulatory circuits

Table 3 The probability that two circuit genotypes share an alternative phenotype decreases with their genotypic distance

N	c	d	Fraction of genotypes that share a specific phenotype after kmutations.
			k= 1	k= 2	k= 3	k= 4	k= 5
8	0.4	0.125	0.854	0.749	0.664	0.593	0.546
		0.25	0.874	0.777	0.706	0.645	0.6
		0.5	0.911	0.839	0.786	0.748	0.713
	0.3	0.125	0.869	0.768	0.691	0.624	0.568
		0.25	0.882	0.787	0.716	0.657	0.606
		0.5	0.925	0.863	0.809	0.765	0.727
20	0.3	0.1	0.826	0.718	0.644	0.59	0.546
		0.25	0.85	0.753	0.687	0.646	0.619
		0.5	0.907	0.849	0.804	0.774	0.75
	0.2	0.1	0.874	0.776	0.701	0.643	0.596
		0.25	0.877	0.782	0.719	0.663	0.617
		0.5	0.913	0.85	0.799	0.762	0.73
	0.1	0.1	0.913	0.848	0.784	0.728	0.676
		0.25	0.924	0.857	0.797	0.743	0.701
		0.5	0.939	0.891	0.849	0.811	0.779

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