Modeling evolution of crosstalk in noisy signal transduction networks. Author Ammar Tareen, Ned Wingreen, Ranjan Mukhopadhyay Publication Year 2018 Type Journal Article Abstract Signal transduction networks can form highly interconnected systems within cells due to crosstalk between constituent pathways. To better understand the evolutionary design principles underlying such networks, we study the evolution of crosstalk for two parallel signaling pathways that arise via gene duplication. We use a sequence-based evolutionary algorithm and evolve the network based on two physically motivated fitness functions related to information transmission. We find that one fitness function leads to a high degree of crosstalk while the other leads to pathway specificity. Our results offer insights on the relationship between network architecture and information transmission for noisy biomolecular networks. Journal Phys Rev E Volume 97 Issue 2-1 Pages 020402 Date Published 2018 Feb ISSN Number 2470-0053 DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.97.020402 Alternate Journal Phys Rev E PMCID PMC5973540 PMID 29548149 PubMedPubMed CentralGoogle ScholarBibTeXEndNote X3 XML