Simple stochastic birth and death models of genome evolution: Was there enough time for us to evolve?

Bioinformatics

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 1889-1900

  Karev, Georgy P ^a   Wolf, Yuri I ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INTERACTION; GENOME SIZE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TIME;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0142148213     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg351     Document Type: Article

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