The expression tractability of biological traits shaped by natural selection

• 作者: Feng Wang Jian-Rong Yang Jianguo Wang Li Liu Xionglei He
• 来源期刊: 遗传学报
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（8）
• 所属期刊栏目: Original Research
• 页码范围: 397-404
• 页数: 8页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Understanding how gene expression is translated to phenotype is central to modern molecular biology,and the success is contingent on the intrinsic tractability of the specific traits under examination.However,an a priori estimate of trait tractability from the perspective of gene expression is unavailable.Motivated by the concept of entropy in a thermodynamic system,we here propose such an estimate (ST) by gauging the number (N) of expression states that underlie the same trait abnormality,with large ST corresponding to large N.By analyzing over 200 yeast morphological traits,we show that ST predicts the tractability of an expression-trait relationship.We further show that ST is ultimately determined by natural selection,which builds co-regulated gene modules to minimize possible expression states.

作者信息

序号	姓名	单位	发文数	被引次数	H指数	G指数
1	Li Liu		1	0	0.0	0.0
2	Jianguo Wang		1	0	0.0	0.0
3	Jian-Rong Yang		1	0	0.0	0.0
4	Feng Wang		1	0	0.0	0.0
5	Xionglei He		1	0	0.0	0.0