The basic reproductive ratio of life

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 263, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 317-327

  Manapat, Michael L ^a,b   Chen, Irene A ^a   Nowak, Martin A ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary dynamics; Prelife; Replication; Template directed synthesis

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOZYME;

ABUNDANCE; EQUILIBRIUM; POLYMERIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; EVOLUTION; GENE REPLICATION; HYDROLYSIS; LIFE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SIMULATION;

BIOPOLYMERS; EVOLUTION; LIFE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 76749111073     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.12.020     Document Type: Article

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