Robustness and evolvability in living systems / Andreas Wagner. [electronic resource]
Material type: TextSeries: Princeton studies in complexityPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrationsISBN:- 9781400849383 (e-book)
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- QH390 .W356 2005
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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.
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