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Robustness and evolvability in living systems / Andreas Wagner. [electronic resource]

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton studies in complexityPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9781400849383 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Robustness and evolvability in living systems.DDC classification:
  • 572.8/38 22
LOC classification:
  • QH390 .W356 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- The genetic alphabet -- The genetic code -- RNA structure -- Proteins and point mutations -- Proteins and recombination -- Regulatory DNA regions and their reorganization in evolution -- Metabolic pathways -- Metabolic networks -- Drosophila segmentation and other gene regulatory networks -- Phenotypic traits, cryptic variation, and human diseases -- The many ways of building the same body -- Neutral spaces -- Evolvability and neutral mutations -- Redundancy of parts or distributed robustness? -- Robustness as an evolved adaptation to mutations -- Robustness as an evolved adapatation to environmental change and noise -- Robustness and fragility: advantages to variation and trade-offs -- Robustness in natural systems and self-organization -- Robustness in man-made systems.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-358) and index.

Introduction -- The genetic alphabet -- The genetic code -- RNA structure -- Proteins and point mutations -- Proteins and recombination -- Regulatory DNA regions and their reorganization in evolution -- Metabolic pathways -- Metabolic networks -- Drosophila segmentation and other gene regulatory networks -- Phenotypic traits, cryptic variation, and human diseases -- The many ways of building the same body -- Neutral spaces -- Evolvability and neutral mutations -- Redundancy of parts or distributed robustness? -- Robustness as an evolved adaptation to mutations -- Robustness as an evolved adapatation to environmental change and noise -- Robustness and fragility: advantages to variation and trade-offs -- Robustness in natural systems and self-organization -- Robustness in man-made systems.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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