Fluctuation analysis: Can estimates be trusted?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Ycart, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CELL MUTANT; FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTATION RATE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION;

EID: 84892607166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080958     Document Type: Article

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