Selection dynamics in autocatalytic systems: Templates replicating through binary ligation

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1073-1098

  Wills, Peter R ^a,b   Kauffman, Stuart A ^a   Stadler, Barbel M R ^c   Stadler, Peter F ^a,c  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; NUCLEIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TEMPLATE; KINETICS; LIGATION; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STEADY STATE; SYNTHESIS; TIME;

DARWINIA;

EID: 0032213787     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8240(98)90003-9     Document Type: Article

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