Selfishness versus functional cooperation in a stochastic protocell model

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 267, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 605-613

  Zintzaras, Elias ^a,b,c   Santos, Mauro ^a,d   Szathmáry, Eörs ^a,e,f  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^f Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial cells; Functional complexity; Monte Carlo methods; Q replicase; Ribozymes

Indexed keywords

Q BETA REPLICASE;

CATALYST; CELL ORGANELLE; COMPLEXITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL ORGANS, TISSUES AND CELLS; CATALYSIS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL VACUOLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA REPLICATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ARTIFICIAL CELLS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 77957296390     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.09.011     Document Type: Article

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