Collective properties of evolving molecular quasispecies

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Stich, Michael ^a   Briones, Carlos ^a   Manrubia, Susanna C ^a  

^a CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; GENOTYPE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION RATE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA; SELECTION (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547613696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-110     Document Type: Article

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