Solution of the crow-kimura and Eigen models for alphabets of arbitrary size by Schwinger spin coherent states

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 429-465

  Muñoz, Enrique ^a   Park, Jeong Man ^a   Deem, Michael W ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Error catastrophe; Evolution alphabet size; Molecular evolution; Quasispecies theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349152655     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-009-9732-2     Document Type: Article

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