Error catastrophe for viruses infecting cells: Analysis of the phase transition in terms of error classes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1933, 2010, Pages 5569-5582

  Alonso, Julia ^a   Fort, Hugo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Error catastrophe; Error classes; Finite size scaling; Viral quasi species

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; DISASTERS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RNA; VIRUSES;

BOSE CONDENSATION; COUPLED EQUATION; ERROR CATASTROPHE; FINITE SIZE SCALING; GENETIC SEQUENCE; HIGH MUTATION RATE; POPULATION CLASS; REAL TIME; RNA VIRUS; VIRAL QUASI-SPECIES;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; HUMAN; MUTATION; RNA VIRUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; RNA VIRUSES; THERMODYNAMICS; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 78650476934     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0274     Document Type: Article

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