Article
Robustness and evolvability.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Sept 2010
Masel Joanna, Trotter Meredith V
Abstract excerpt
Why isn't random variation always deleterious? Are there factors that sometimes make adaptation easier? Biological systems are extraordinarily robust to perturbation by mutations, recombination and the environment. It has been proposed that this robustness might make them more evolvable. Robustness to mutation allows genetic variation to accumulate in a cryptic state. Switching mechanisms known as evolutionary...
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genotype
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Recombination, Genetic