Quantitative analysis of regulatory flexibility under changing environmental conditions

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Edwards, Kieron D ^a,e   Akman, Ozgur E ^a,f   Knox, Kirsten ^a   Lumsden, Peter J ^b   Thomson, Adrian W ^a   Brown, Paul E ^c   Pokhilko, Alexandra ^a   Kozma Bognar, Laszlo ^d   Nagy, Ferenc ^a,d   Rand, David A ^c   Millar, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^e Advanced Technologies Cambridge Limited   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; biological clocks; dynamical systems; gene regulatory networks; mathematical models; photoperiodism

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CCA1 GENE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IPOMOEA NIL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOC1 GENE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPORTER GENE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; IPOMOEA NIL;

ARABIDOPSIS; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CLOCK PROTEINS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, REPORTER; IPOMOEA NIL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOPERIOD; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 77957266390     PISSN: 17444292     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2010.81     Document Type: Article

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