Outline of a concept for organismic systems biology

Seminars in Cancer Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 156-164

  Rosslenbroich, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomy in evolution; Developmental systems biology; Downward causation; Holism; Organicism; Organismic systems biology; Paul Alfred Weiss; Reductionism; Susan Oyama; System theory; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; ONTOGENY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 79960719305     PISSN: 1044579X     EISSN: 10963650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2011.06.001     Document Type: Review

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