Biological robustness

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 826-837

  Kitano, Hiroaki ^a,b  

^a SONY COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

^b Systems Biology Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOLOGICAL ROBUSTNESS; BIOLOGY; CELL CYCLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DISEASE; FEEDBACK; HUMANS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 7644238181     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1471     Document Type: Review

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