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Author Wagner, Andreas

Title Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems
Published Princeton University Press, 2013

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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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Subject Molecular evolution.
Mutation (Biology)
Biological systems -- Stability
Robust control.
Evolution, Molecular
Mutation
Molecular evolution
Mutation (Biology)
Robust control
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1299991211
9781299991217
9781400849383
1400849381