Individual histories and selection in heterogeneous populations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 13183-13188

  Leibler, Stanislas ^a,b   Kussell, Edo ^c  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fundamental theorem of natural selection; Phenotypic diversity; Selection strength; Statistical mechanics; Stochastic switching

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CELL POPULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTORICAL RESEARCH; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77955608576     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912538107     Document Type: Article

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