Balance equations can buffer noisy and sustained environmental perturbations of circadian clocks

Interface Focus

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 177-186

  Domijan, Mirela ^a   Rand, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Balance equations; Circadian clocks; Environmental perturbations; Mathematical models; Robustness; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860855478     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2010.0007     Document Type: Article

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