How small are small mutation rates?

Journal of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 803-827

  Wu, Bin ^a,b   Gokhale, Chaitanya S ^a   Wang, Long ^b   Traulsen, Arne ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Evolutionary game theory; Mutation rates; Perturbation analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GAME; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MUTATION RATE; PROBABILITY;

GAME THEORY; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION RATE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84859835596     PISSN: 03036812     EISSN: 14321416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-011-0430-8     Document Type: Article

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