Biology – Quantitative Biology – Molecular Networks
Scientific paper
2011-06-13
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Molecular Networks
8 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
Canalization is a classic concept in Developmental Biology that is thought to be an important feature of evolving systems. In a Boolean network it is a form of network robustness in which a subset of the input signals control the behavior of a node regardless of the remaining input. It has been shown that Boolean networks can become canalized if they evolve through a frustrated competition between nodes. This was demonstrated for large networks in which each node had K=3 inputs. Those networks evolve to a critical steady-state at the boarder of two phases of dynamical behavior. Moreover, the evolution of these networks was shown to be associated with the symmetry of the evolutionary dynamics. We extend these results to the more highly connected K>3 cases and show that similar canalized critical steady states emerge with the same associated dynamical symmetry, but only if the evolutionary dynamics is biased toward homogeneous Boolean functions.
Bassler Kevin E.
Reichl Matthew D.
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