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  • Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems
  • Written by author Andreas Wagner
  • Published by Princeton University Press, 2007
  • All living things are remarkably complex, yet their DNA is unstable, undergoing countless random mutations over generations. Despite this instability, most animals do not grow two heads or die, plants continue to thrive, and bacteria continue to divide.
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List of Figures ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Chapter 1: Introduction 1

PART I: ROBUSTNESS BELOW THE GENE LEVEL 13

Chapter 2: The Genetic Alphabet 15

Chapter 3: The Genetic Code 25

Chapter 4: RNA Structure 39

Chapter 5: Proteins and Point Mutations 62

Chapter 6: Proteins and Recombination 78

PART II: ROBUSTNESS ABOVE THE GENE LEVEL 91

Chapter 7: Regulatory DNA Regions and Their Reorganization in Evolution 93

Chapter 8: Metabolic Pathways 104

Chapter 9: Metabolic Networks 120

Chapter 10: Drosophila Segmentation and Other Gene Regulatory Networks 143

Chapter 11: Phenotypic Traits, Cryptic Variation, and Human Diseases 161

Chapter 12: The Many Ways of Building the Same Body 175

PART III: COMMON PRINCIPLES 193

Chapter 13: Neutral Spaces 195

Chapter 14: Evolvability and Neutral Mutations 217

Chapter 15: Redundancy of Parts or Distributed Robustness? 228

Chapter 16: Robustness as an Evolved Adaptation to Mutations 247

Chapter 17: Robustness as an Evolved Adaptation to Environmental Change and Noise 270

Chapter 18: Robustness and Fragility: Advantages to Variation and Trade-offs 281

PART IV: ROBUSTNESS BEYOND THE ORGANISM 295

Chapter 19: Robustness in Natural Systems and Self-Organization 297

Chapter 20: Robustness in Man-made Systems 310

Epilogue: Seven Open Questions for Systems Biology 321

Bibliography 323

Index 359


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