Figure 5: Deleterious mutations at high mutation rates are more costly due to informationally dense genomes. | Scientific Reports

Figure 5: Deleterious mutations at high mutation rates are more costly due to informationally dense genomes.

From: Evolution of Genome Size in Asexual Digital Organisms

Figure 5

The inverse of the harmonic mean of deleterious selection coefficients for the fittest genotype from each replicate shows that deleterious mutations are costlier at high mutation rates (A). This can be explained by the high coding density in these genomes (B). Traits/site/trait represents how many traits are encoded per site, normalized by the total number of evolved traits, and thus is a measure of coding density of the genome. Red lines are median values from 100 replicates, while the upper and lower bounds of the box are the third and first quartile, respectively. Whiskers are either 1.5 times the the quartile value or the extreme value in the data, whichever is closer to the median. Plus signs are outliers.

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