Mutation Rules and the Evolution of Sparseness and Modularity in Biological Systems

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Friedlander, Tamar ^a   Mayo, Avraham E ^a   Tlusty, Tsvi ^a,b   Alon, Uri ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84881145372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070444     Document Type: Article

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