Robustness and evolvability in living systems /
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| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2005]
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| Serie: | Princeton studies in complexity
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| Accesso online: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Sommario:
- 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.