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. 2007 Jun 5;17(11):R410-2.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.03.060.

Systems biology: a switch for sex

Steven S Andrews  1 , Adam P Arkin
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Systems biology: a switch for sex

Steven S Andrews et al. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

The yeast pheromone response pathway works in a graded fashion, such that more pheromone leads to more response, but a recent study has shown that small modifications convert it into a bistable switch, with implications for the evolution and engineering of reaction networks.

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