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Selective robustness is a key feature of biochemical networks, conferring a fitness benefit to organisms living in dynamic environments. The (in-)sensitivity of a network to external perturbations results from the interaction between network dynamics, design, and enzyme kinetics…

This thesis studies the robustness of complex dynamical networks with non-trivial topologies against global perturbations, following Robert May's seminal work on network stability, in order to find critical stability thresholds of global perturbations and to determine if their i…