Origin of the fittest: Link between emergentvariation and evolutionary change as acritical question in evolutionary biology

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1714, 2011, Pages 1921-1929

  Badyaev, Alexander V ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Emergence; Genome architecture; Inheritance; Modularity; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HERITABILITY; HOMEOSTASIS; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; SELF ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79957667496     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0548     Document Type: Article

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