Originator dynamics

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 586-595

  Manapat, Michael ^a,b   Ohtsuki, Hisashi ^c   Bürger, Reinhard ^d   Nowak, Martin A ^a,e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Evolutionary dynamics; Origin of life; Prelife; Replication

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EQUATION; EVOLUTION; MUTATION; ORIGIN OF LIFE;

ANIMALS; BIOGENESIS; EVOLUTION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 58549097444     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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