Bistability in feedback circuits as a byproduct of evolution of evolvability

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kuwahara, Hiroyuki ^a   Soyer, Orkun S ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

environmental fluctuations; gene regulatory network; noise; phenotypic variability; stochastic switching

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84856097541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2011.98     Document Type: Article

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