Posted by Erik Svensson
My aim is to understand how regulatory
networks evolve to integrate genetic, developmental and environmental factors. I
focus on how phenotypic evolution can be caused by changes in the interactions
between groups of heterogeneous components rather than by individual genes. My
methods include integrative analyses of heterogeneous high-throughput datasets
based on theoretical evolutionary modelling.
I am using simulations of environmental and
genetic networks to explain the evolution of phenotypic plasticity. I aim to
provide a theoretical backbone for empirical studies on how environmental
interactions affect the structure of developmental regulation and to understand
which regulatory architectures evolve to dampen, propagate or interpret
environmental inputs.
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