Environmental Noise, Genetic Diversity and the Evolution of Evolvability and Robustness in Model Gene Networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Steiner, Christopher F ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPISTASIS; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NOISE; ORGANISMS; PHENOTYPE; RED NOISE; WHITE NOISE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; NOISE;

EID: 84871432617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052204     Document Type: Article

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