The road to modularity: "

Nature Reviews Genetics 8, 921 (2007). doi:10.1038/nrg2267 Authors: Günter P. Wagner, Mihaela Pavlicev & James M. Cheverud

A network of interactions is called modular if it is subdivided into relatively autonomous, internally highly connected components. Modularity has emerged as a rallying point for research in developmental and evolutionary biology (and specifically evo-devo), as well as in molecular systems biology. Here we review