Degeneracy-driven self-structuring dynamics in selective repertoires

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1349-1365

  Atamas, Sergei P ^a   Bell, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Degenerate repertoires; Logistic; Lotka Volterra; Partial differential integral equations; Resource consumer model; Specificity; Verhulst

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 70349566445     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-009-9404-z     Document Type: Article

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