Degeneracy: A design principle for achieving robustness and evolvability

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 263, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 143-153

  Whitacre, James ^a   Bender, Axel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed robustness; Evolution; Fitness landscapes; Neutral networks; Redundancy

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DESIGN; EVOLUTION; LANDSCAPE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DEGENERATION; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FITNESS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77649342383     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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