On the long-term fitness of cells in periodically switching environments

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 210-235

  Pang, Ning Ning ^a   Tzeng, Wen Jer ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Biological switch; Evolution; Fitness; Population biology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; STATISTICS;

CELL PHYSIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MODELS, GENETIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 38049036434     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-007-9250-9     Document Type: Article

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