@sungbin.bsky.social et al. explore the evolutionary forces behind prfB autoregulation loss to illustrate how compensatory evolution can favor trait loss when the fitness benefit of losing the trait outweighs its cost.
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Abstract. Understanding why some traits are maintained whereas others are repeatedly lost is a central question in evolutionary biology. Here, we address t
