Evolving towards the hypercycle: A spatial model of molecular evolution

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 134-141

  Attolini, Camille Stephan Otto ^a   Stadler, Peter F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Hypercycle; Quasispecies; RNA secondary structure

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; GENES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RNA;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; HYPERCYCLE; QUASISPECIES; RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

EID: 33747488492     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2006.03.015     Document Type: Article

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