How Evolving Heterogeneity Distributions of Resource Allocation Strategies Shape Mortality Patterns

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Le Cunff, Yann ^a,b   Baudisch, Annette ^b   Pakdaman, Khashayar ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

AGING RATES; INFLUENCE PREDICTIONS; INTER-INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; LIFESPANS; MORTALITY PATTERNS; PARAMETER EXPLORATION; POPULATION HETEROGENEITY; POPULATION LEVELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION STRATEGIES; STRESS INDUCTION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DETERMINISTIC MODEL; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION HETEROGENEITY; PREDICTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STRESS;

EID: 84873502180     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002825     Document Type: Article

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