A model of the effect of anti-competitor toxins on plasmid-bearing, plasmid-free competition

Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 135-155

  Hsu, Sze Bi ^a   Waltman, Paul ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemostat; Competition; Perturbation of a globally stable steady state; Plasmid bearing plasmid free

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005397043     PISSN: 10275487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11650/twjm/1500407405     Document Type: Article

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