A chance at survival: gene expression noise and phenotypic diversification strategies.

Abstract excerpt

Phenotypic diversification plays a central role in evolution and provides species with a capacity to survive environmental adversity. The profound impact of random molecular events on the shaping of life is well accepted in the context of chance mutations and genetic drift; however, the evolution of the regulatory networks encoding microorganismal stress response and survival strategies might also have been...

Topics

• Adaptation, Physiological
• Ecosystem
• Environment
• Evolution, Molecular
• Gene Expression
• Genetics, Population
• Mutation
• Phenotype
• Stochastic Processes
• Stress, Physiological