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SUBMITTER: Kitano H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2913402 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biological robustness is a principle that may shed light on system-level characteristics of biological systems. One intriguing aspect of the concept of biological robustness is the possible existence of intrinsic trade-offs among robustness, fragility, performance, and so on. At the same time, whether such trade-offs hold regardless of the situation or hold only under specific conditions warrants careful investigation. In this paper, we reassess this concept and argue that biological robustness ...[more]