Are network motifs the spandrels of cellular complexity?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 419-422

  Solé, Ricard V ^a,b   Valverde, Sergi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE; MORPHOGENESIS; PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL; GENETIC SELECTION; SHORT SURVEY;

CELLS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33745998748     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2006.05.013     Document Type: Short Survey

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