Investigating ontogenetic space with developmental cell lineages Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:2998588, abstract = {Development plays a significant role in biological evolution, and is likely to prove an effective route to overcoming the limitations of direct genotype-phenotype mappings in artificial evolution. Nonetheless, the relationship between development and evolution is complex and still poorly understood. One question of current interest concerns the possible role that developmental processes may play in orienting evolution. A first step towards exploring this issue from a theoretical perspective is understanding the structure of ontogenetic space: the space of possible genotype-phenotype mappings. Using a quantitative model of development that enables ontogenetic space to be characterised in terms of complexity, we show that ontogenetic landscapes have a characteristic structure that varies with genotypic properties.}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, author = {Geard, N. L. and Wiles, J. H.}, booktitle = {The Tenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (Artificial Life X)}, citeulike-article-id = {2998588}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14084/}, day = {3-7}, editor = {Rocha, L. M. and Yaeger, L. S. and Bedau, M. A. and Floreano, D. and Goldstone, R. L. and Vespignani, A.}, keywords = {alife, celegans, cell-lineages, complexity, development, evolution, simulation}, location = {Bloomington, Indiana}, month = {June}, number = {1}, pages = {56--62}, posted-at = {2008-07-14 11:44:21}, priority = {2}, publisher = {MIT Press}, title = {Investigating ontogenetic space with developmental cell lineages}, url = {http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14084/}, volume = {1}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2998588 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2998588 N2 - Development plays a significant role in biological evolution, and is likely to prove an effective route to overcoming the limitations of direct genotype-phenotype mappings in artificial evolution. Nonetheless, the relationship between development and evolution is complex and still poorly understood. One question of current interest concerns the possible role that developmental processes may play in orienting evolution. A first step towards exploring this issue from a theoretical perspective is understanding the structure of ontogenetic space: the space of possible genotype-phenotype mappings. Using a quantitative model of development that enables ontogenetic space to be characterised in terms of complexity, we show that ontogenetic landscapes have a characteristic structure that varies with genotypic properties. CY - Bloomington, Indiana IS - 1 AD - Cambridge, MA EP - 62 TI - Investigating ontogenetic space with developmental cell lineages PB - MIT Press VL - 1 T2 - The Tenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (Artificial Life X) SP - 56 KW - alife KW - celegans KW - cell-lineages KW - complexity KW - development KW - evolution KW - simulation AU - Geard, NL AU - Wiles, JH A2 - Rocha, LM A2 - Yaeger, LS A2 - Bedau, MA A2 - Floreano, D A2 - Goldstone, RL A2 - Vespignani, A PY - 2006/06/3-7/ UR - http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14084/ ER -