The robustness continuum

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 751, Issue , 2012, Pages 431-452

  Levy, Sasha F ^a   Siegal, Mark L ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; CANCER CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; LACTOSE OPERON; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION GENETICS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STEREOTYPY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CELL TRANSFORMATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; ENVIRONMENT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84866780198     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3567-9_20     Document Type: Article

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