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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2021

Phase transitions and assortativity in models of gene regulatory networks evolved under different selection processes.

Brandon Alexander, Alexandra Pushkar, Michelle Girvan

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Brandon AlexanderDepartment of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA.
Alexandra PushkarDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
Michelle GirvanInstitute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA.
Applied Mathematics (United States) · USNorthwestern University · USSanta Fe Institute · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We study a simplified model of gene regulatory network evolution in which links (regulatory interactions) are added via various selection rules that are based on the structural and dynamical features of the network nodes (genes). Similar to well-studied models of 'explosive' percolation, in our approach, links are selectively added so as to delay the transition to large-scale damage propagation, i.e. to make the network robust to small perturbations of gene states. We find that when selection depends only on structure, evolved networks are resistant to widespread damage propagation, even without knowledge of individual gene propensities for becoming 'damaged'. We also observe that networks evolved to avoid damage propagation tend towards disassortativity (i.e. directed links preferentially connect high degree 'source' genes to low degree 'target' genes and vice versa). We compare our simulations to reconstructed gene regulatory networks for several different species, with genes and links added over evolutionary time, and we find a similar bias towards disassortativity in the reconstructed networks.

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Gene Regulatory NetworksModels, TheoreticalPhase Transitionassortativitycomplex networksevolutionexplosive percolationgene regulation

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PMID33849335
PMCPMC8086935
OpenAlexW3152499122

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