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Figure 6

From: Collective properties of evolving molecular quasispecies

Figure 6

Search and fixation time as a function of μ for different target structures. The number of generations required to find and fix the target structure depends not only on the length of the sequence, but also on its specific secondary structure. It takes longer to fix a hammerhead structure than a hairpin structure of the same length. The interval of μ values where the structure can be effectively fixed shrinks as n increases. Simulations have been made for the hairpin structure (solid line), hammerhead structure (dotted line), 3-stem-loop structure (dashed line), model tRNA structure (dotted-dashed line), N = 602, and averages of 200 realizations have been performed.

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