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Competitive and Clonal Dominance Behavior: Raising Awareness of Their Role in Shape Generation
Author(s) -
HoffmeisterUllerich Sabine
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bioessays
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.175
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1521-1878
pISSN - 0265-9247
DOI - 10.1002/bies.202000127
Subject(s) - organism , biology , dominance (genetics) , competition (biology) , cognitive science , evolutionary biology , gene , ecology , genetics , psychology
Gene regulatory networks, which are crucial for the proper development of organisms, are extensively studied. From these investigations, coordinative mechanisms are shown to be instructive for further development. Competitive mechanisms as well as environmental and metabolic influences, however, are widely ignored so far but appear to be important for the emergence of shape.