Robustness: mechanisms and consequences.

Abstract excerpt

Biological systems are robust to perturbation by mutations and environmental fluctuations. New data are shedding light on the biochemical and network-level mechanisms responsible for robustness. Robustness to mutation might have evolved as an adaptation to reduce the effect of mutations, as a congruent byproduct of adaptive robustness to environmental variation, or as an intrinsic property of biological systems...

Topics

• Adaptation, Biological
• Animals
• Evolution, Molecular
• Gene Expression
• Genetic Variation
• Mutation