Sexual reproduction selects for robustness and negative epistasis in artificial gene networks

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7080, 2006, Pages 87-90

  Azevedo, Ricardo B R ^a   Lohaus, Rolf ^a   Srinivasan, Suraj ^a   Dang, Kristen K ^b   Burch, Christina L ^c  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUTAGENESIS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL GENE NETWORK MODEL; GENETIC INTERACTION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 33644745138     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04488     Document Type: Article

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