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The stochastic RNA model. Thermal fluctuations cause RNA strands to spontaneously unfold and fold again into different secondary structures. In this model, the phenotype is not fixed but switches between secondary structures with free energy below some threshold. The time spent in each secondary structure is dependent on an environmental factor, the temperature T. This phenotypic switching is an example of bet-hedging in the GP-mapping. (Online version in colour.)
