On the application of statistical physics to evolutionary biology

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 317-324

  Barton, N H ^a,b   Coe, J B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Entropy; Fitness; Information; Maxwell's demon; Random drift; Redundancy; Statistical thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ENTROPY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; MUTATION; PHYSICS; POPULATION SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; ENTROPY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ENTROPY; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 67349151347     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.03.019     Document Type: Article

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