The information capacity of hypercycles

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 254, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 804-806

  Silvestre, Daniel A M M ^a   Fontanari, José F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Error threshold; Periodic orbits; Prebiotic evolution; Template coexistence

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; EQUILIBRIUM; EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL METHOD; THRESHOLD;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACROMOLECULE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOGENESIS; DNA REPLICATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; RNA; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 52149107356     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.07.023     Document Type: Article

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