Robustness and evolvability in living systems /

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Main Author: Wagner, Andreas, 1967 January 26-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2005]
Series:Princeton studies in complexity
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Table of 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.