Robustness and modular design of the Drosophila segment polarity network

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ma, Wenzhe ^a   Lai, Luhua ^a   Ouyang, Qi ^a   Tang, Chao ^a,b,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Evolution; Function and topology; Modularity; Robustness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO POLARITY; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33846106739     PISSN: 17444292     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb4100111     Document Type: Article

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