Phenotypic plasticity can facilitate adaptive evolution in gene regulatory circuits

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Espinosa Soto, Carlos ^a,b   Martin, Olivier C ^c   Wagner, Andreas ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HUMAN; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 78650889884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-5     Document Type: Article

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