How does evolution tune biological noise?

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Richard, Magali ^a   Yvert, Gaël ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Bet hedging; Evolution; Nucleosome; Phenotypic buffering; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL NOISE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOSOME; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 84917698552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00374     Document Type: Review

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