About the gene families size distribution in a recent model of genome evolution

Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1005-1020

  Gabetta, Ester ^a   Regazzini, Eugenio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Duplication loss change model; gene families size distribution; genome evolution

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC EXPRESSIONS; CLOSED FORM; DUPLICATION-LOSS-CHANGE MODEL; GAUSS HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTION; GENE FAMILIES; GENERATING FUNCTIONS; GENOME EVOLUTION; GEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION; LIMITING DISTRIBUTIONS; MODEL YIELDS; NEGATIVE EXPONENTIAL; POWER COMPONENTS; PROBABILITY LAW; SPECIAL FUNCTIONS; STATISTICAL MODELS;

BIOLOGY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GENES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIZE DETERMINATION;

SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77954331603     PISSN: 02182025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218202510004519     Document Type: Article

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