The error threshold

Virus Research

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 117-127

  Biebricher, Christof K ^a   Eigen, Manfred ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mutation; Quasispecies; Replication; Selection; Sequence heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DENSITY; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; GRAVITY; GROWTH RATE; INCUBATION TIME; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PHYSICS; POPULATION; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; VIRUS; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS REPLICATION; WILD TYPE;

RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 11844274684     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2004.11.002     Document Type: Article

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