Back to Search
Start Over
Adaptation of cells to new environments
- Source :
- WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine. 3:544-561
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2010.
-
Abstract
- The evolutionary success of an organism is a testament to its inherent capacity to keep pace with environmental conditions that change over short and long periods. Mechanisms underlying adaptive processes are being investigated with renewed interest and excitement. This revival is partly fueled by powerful technologies that can probe molecular phenomena at a systems scale. Such studies provide spectacular insight into the mechanisms of adaptation, including rewiring of regulatory networks via natural selection of horizontal gene transfers, gene duplication, deletion, readjustment of kinetic parameters, and myriad other genetic reorganizational events. Here, we will discuss advances in prokaryotic systems biology from the perspective of evolutionary principles that have shaped regulatory networks for dynamic adaptation to environmental change.
- Subjects :
- Natural selection
Environmental change
Systems biology
Scale (chemistry)
Gene regulatory network
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Genomics
Biology
Adaptation, Physiological
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)
Article
Evolution, Molecular
Prokaryotic Cells
Evolutionary biology
Environmental Microbiology
Gene Regulatory Networks
Adaptation
Organism
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1939005X and 19395094
- Volume :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dc72b5dbeffa3250768f86a711071433