Phenotype accessibility and noise in random threshold gene regulatory networks.

Abstract excerpt

Evolution requires phenotypic variation in a population of organisms for selection to function. Gene regulatory processes involved in organismal development affect the phenotypic diversity of organisms. Since only a fraction of all possible phenotypes are predicted to be accessed by the end of development, organisms may evolve strategies to use environmental cues and noise-like fluctuations to produce additional...

Topics

• Gene Expression
• Gene Regulatory Networks
• Genome
• Models, Genetic
• Phenotype