The relationship between the error catastrophe, survival of the flattest, and natural selection

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHE THEORY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; MUTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 78650784243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-2     Document Type: Article

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