Epigenetic Feedback Regulation Accelerates Adaptation and Evolution

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Furusawa, Chikara ^a   Kaneko, Kunihiko ^b  

^a RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GROWTH RATE; MICROENVIRONMENT; PLASTICITY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84877304629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061251     Document Type: Article

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