Robustness and time-scale hierarchy in biological systems.
This study addresses the issue of robustness of biological systems with respect to microscopic parameters, especially the emergence of robustness as a consequence of time-scale hierarchy, applying naive thermodynamic and dynamic assumptions. Theoretical considerations of how the time-scale hierarchy can decouple physiological regulatory mechanisms are illustrated by two model systems involving the photosynthetic apparatus of green plants.
Rojdestvenski
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Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Sweden.
Cottam
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Park
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Oquist
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D007700:Kinetics; D010788:Photosynthesis; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D013816:Thermodynamics; D013995:Time