Mechanistic Explanations for Restricted Evolutionary Paths That Emerge from Gene Regulatory Networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Cotterell, James ^a,b   Sharpe, James ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EPISTASIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA SEQUENCE;

EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MUTATION;

EID: 84876279282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061178     Document Type: Article

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