“…Perspective: towards a general framework about metabolic pathway plasticity and evolution Apart from enzyme replacement and changes in enzyme order, there are several other additional possible mechanisms leading to metabolic pathway drift such as gene expression increase instead of gene duplication (Xu et al, 2017), variation in subcellular localization (Rıó Baŕtulos et al, 2018;Conart et al, 2023), changes in rate-limiting enzymes (Orlenko et al, 2016) or regulatory plasticity (Coton et al, 2022;Coton et al, 2023). However, before going into exploration of other possible mechanisms, it is necessary to fully understand how enzyme replacement and changes in enzyme order occur.…”