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. 2006 May 26;2(5):e58. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020058

Figure 3. Analysis of Pathway Detours and Local Environment of Fitness Optima.

Figure 3

(A) Histogram showing the number of detour mutations of the divergence pathways. The Hamming distance dH of two sequences is defined as the number of positions at which they have different base pairs. Paths that are longer than dH arrive at an optimum after a detour.

(B) Histogram of the Hamming distance between the optimum that is found and the closest optimum. If this measure is zero, a path leads to the closest optimum.

(C) Median fitness value as a function of the Hamming distance from a global optimum (solid line). Gray levels indicate the spread of the fitness values.