Applicability of the Fisher equation to bacterial population dynamics

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 5 1, 2003, Pages

  Kenkre, V M ^a   Kuperman, M N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO BALSEIRO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

FISCHER EQUATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BACTERIA;

EID: 42749105974     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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