Phenotype Switching and Mutations in Random Environments

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 399-421

  Fudenberg, Drew ^a   Imhof, Lorens A ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bet hedging; Finite population; Fluctuating environment; Optimal switching rate; Stochastic evolution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; STATISTICS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC FITNESS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84856255860     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-011-9687-8     Document Type: Article

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