Effects of stochastic noise on the evolution of canalization

Kevin E. Bassler; Min Liu

doi:10.1117/12.609453

23 May 2005 Effects of stochastic noise on the evolution of canalization (Invited Paper)

Kevin E. Bassler, Min Liu

Proceedings Volume 5845, Noise in Complex Systems and Stochastic Dynamics III; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.609453
Event: SPIE Third International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise, 2005, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

Canalization is a form of network robustness found in genetic regulatory networks that results in a reduction of the variation of phenotypic expression relative to the complexity of the genome. Recently, it was discovered that canalization can evolve in a complex network through a self-organization of node (gene) behavior resulting from a competition of a network's nodes that selects for a diversity of behavior [K.E. Bassler, C. Lee, and Y. Lee, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 038101 (2004)]. Previously, this "self-organized" mechanism for the evolution of canalization has been studied only in deterministic model systems. This paper considers the effects of stochastic noise in the signals exchanged between nodes on the self-organized evolution of canalization. We find that small levels of stochastic noise increase the amount of canalization produced. At higher levels of noise, the amount of canalization produced levels off and reaches a maximum value, before it reduces at large levels of noise.

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Kevin E. Bassler and Min Liu "Effects of stochastic noise on the evolution of canalization (Invited Paper)", Proc. SPIE 5845, Noise in Complex Systems and Stochastic Dynamics III, (23 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.609453

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