Giant number fluctuations in microbial ecologies

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 308, Issue , 2012, Pages 96-104

  Das, Dipjyoti ^a   Das, Dibyendu ^a   Prasad, Ashok ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Horizontal gene transfer; Lysis lysogeny; Mutation; Population dynamics; Stochastic growth

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENE TRANSFER; LYSIS; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MUTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; ECOLOGY; GIANT NUMBER FLUCTUATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LYSIS; LYSOGENIZATION; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VARIANCE; VIRUS INFECTION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLYSIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; LINEAR MODELS; LYSOGENY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION;

LURIA;

EID: 84862626272     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.05.030     Document Type: Article

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