A model for the evolution of networks of genes.

doi:10.1006/jtbi.1993.1189

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A model for the evolution of networks of genes.

Journal of theoretical biology - 7 Dec 1993

Clarke B, Mittenthal J E, Senn M

Abstract excerpt

An organism persists through the activity of structural genes, which is co-ordinated by clusters of coupled regulatory genes. During evolution, changes of coupling within a cluster can increase the reliability with which its structural genes perform a task. To study the evolution of coupling, we...

Topics

Animals
Biological Evolution
Computer Simulation
Genes
Genes, Regulator
Models, Genetic
Mutation

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