Effect of lethality on the extinction and on the error threshold of quasispecies

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 262, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 733-741

  Tejero, Hector ^a   Marín, Arturo ^a   Montero, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Error catastrophe; Mathematical model; Population dynamics; Selection mutation balance; Single peaked landscape

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; INCLUSIVE FITNESS; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; THRESHOLD;

ARTICLE; DISASTER; EXTINCT SPECIES; LETHALITY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA VIRUSES; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77649341255     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.10.011     Document Type: Article

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