Stochastic model for cell polarity

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 827-859

  Gupta, Ankit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell polarity; Donnelly Kurtz; Fleming Viot; Particle representation; Spatial clustering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871629866     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-AAP788     Document Type: Article

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