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Safeguards and spurs

Stephen C. Stearns ()
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Stephen C. Stearns: Yale University

Nature, 2003, vol. 424, issue 6948, 501-503

Abstract: Biological traits are buffered against genetic and environmental upset by a process called canalization. New work suggests this may be a general feature of regulatory gene networks, selected to survive gene loss.

Date: 2003
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