Genes confer similar robustness to environmental, stochastic, and genetic perturbations in yeast.

Gene inactivation often has little or no apparent consequence for the phenotype of an organism. This property-enetic (or mutational) robustness-is pervasive, and has important implications for disease and evolution, but is not well understood. Dating back to at least Waddington, it has been suggeste...

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Main Author: Ben Lehner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-02-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2815791?pdf=render