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Genetic dissection of a yeast gene-regulatory pathway shows that the logical output of such a pathway can remain the same even though the molecular mechanisms underlying the output have diverged remarkably.

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Figure 1: The divergent regulatory architectures associated with yeast mating type.

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  1. Antonis Rokas is in the Microbial Genome Analysis and Annotation Group, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 7 Cambridge Center, 02142, Massachusetts, USA

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Rokas, A. Different paths to the same end. Nature 443, 401–402 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/443401a

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