Gause's Principle and the Effect of Resource Partitioning on the Dynamical Coexistence of Replicating Templates

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Szilágyi, András ^a,b,c   Zachar, István ^c   Szathmáry, Eörs ^a,b,c  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c PARMENIDES FOUNDATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL CALCULATION; BUILDING BLOCKES; COUNTS-AS; FIXED POINTS; NICHE DIFFERENTIATION; NUCLEOTIDE COMPOSITION; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; REPLICATOR DYNAMICS; REPLICATORS; RESOURCE PARTITIONING;

NUCLEOTIDES;

NUCLEOTIDE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPETITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FEEDING; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; STOICHIOMETRY;

EID: 84883403965     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003193     Document Type: Article

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