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As described in chapter II, temperate bacteriophages code for a repressor protein whose presence prevents the synthesis of virtually all the other viral proteins. Whether or not this immunity will be actually established, depends on complex gene interactions, which include several feedback loops. Here I shall present two different formal analyses of this system. The first one is described in more detail in Thomas & Van Ham (1974); its predictions have been checked experimentally (Thomas, Gathoye and Lambert, 1975).
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Thomas, R. (1979). Some biological examples. In: Thomas, R. (eds) Kinetic Logic A Boolean Approach to the Analysis of Complex Regulatory Systems. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49321-8_17
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