On the effects of the modularity of gene regulatory networks on phenotypic variability and its association with robustness.

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Biological adaptations depend on natural selection sorting out those individuals that exhibit characters fit to their environment. Selection, in turn, depends on the phenotypic variation present in a population. Thus, evolutionary outcomes depend, to a certain extent, on the kind of variation that organisms can produce through random genetic perturbation, that is, their phenotypic variability. Moreover, the...

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