Strategy abundance in evolutionary many-player games with multiple strategies

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 283, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 180-191

  Gokhale, Chaitanya S ^a   Traulsen, Arne ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abundance; Coalescence theory; Many player game theory; Multiple strategies

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALLELE; COALESCENCE; GAME THEORY; POLYMORPHISM;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GAME; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUTATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GAME THEORY; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79958842032     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.05.031     Document Type: Article

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