Genetic redundancy caused by gene duplications and its evolution in networks of transcriptional regulators

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 557-567

  Wagner, Andreas ^a,b  

^a Institute for Advanced Study Berlin   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, HOMEOBOX; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030162729     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00209427     Document Type: Article

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