Maximum principle and mutation thresholds for four-letter sequence evolution

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn , Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Garske, T ^a   Grimm, U ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

new applications of statistical mechanics; population dynamics (theory); quantum phase transitions (theory)

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349118837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2004/07/P07007     Document Type: Article

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