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A mechanistic study of evolvability using the mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade.
Evolution & development - 1 Jan 2000
Nijhout H F, Berg A M, Gibson W T
Abstract excerpt
Evolvability is a function of the way genetic variation interacts with the mechanisms that produce the phenotype. We explore an explicitly mechanistic way of studying the evolvability of phenotypes that are produced by a relatively simple genetic mechanism, the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade. We developed a quantitative model of MAPK activation that can be used to study the effects of genetic...
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