New structural variation in evolutionary searches of RNA neutral networks

BioSystems

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 475-485

  Sumedha, ^a   Martin, Olivier C ^a,b   Wagner, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evolutionary innovation; RNA neutral networks; Robustness

Indexed keywords

RNA;

EVOLUTION; GENDER DISPARITY; GENETIC VARIATION; INNOVATION; MAPPING METHOD; MODELING; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 34548511143     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.11.007     Document Type: Article

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