Robustness and evolvability: A paradox resolved

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1630, 2008, Pages 91-100

  Wagner, Andreas ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evolvability; Molecular evolution; Neutral networks

Indexed keywords

RNA;

EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 36348992094     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1137     Document Type: Article

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