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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820361103321

Autore

Sansom Roger

Titolo

Ingenious genes : how gene regulation networks evolve to control development / / Roger Sansom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011

©2011

ISBN

0-262-29726-4

1-283-30272-1

9786613302724

0-262-29820-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (141 p.)

Collana

Life and mind : philosophical issues in biology and psychology

Disciplina

572.8/65

Soggetti

Genetic regulation - Computer simulation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The problem of the evolvability of gene regulation networks -- Are gene regulation networks evolvable? -- Kauffman's framework for gene regulation -- The connectionist framework for gene regulation -- Why gene regulation networks are the controllers of development.

Sommario/riassunto

In this text, Roger Sansom investigates how gene regulation works and how such a refined but simple system evolved. Sansom describes in detail two frameworks for understanding gene regulation.