Noisy clues to the origin of life

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1508, 2002, Pages 2423-2428

  Krakauer, David C ^a   Sasaki, Akira ^b  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Drift; Evolution; Mathematical model; Noise; Prebiotic

Indexed keywords

NOISE;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 0037039015     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2127     Document Type: Article

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