A systems biology view of evolutionary genetics: Network-driven processes incorporate much more variation than evolutionary genetics can handle. This variation is hard to formalise but allows fast change

BioEssays

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 559-563

  Bard, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Genetics; Protein networks; Systems biology; Variation; Waddington

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; PROTEIN;

BREEDING; EVOLUTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 77954858157     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200900166     Document Type: Review

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