Recent theoretical approaches to minimal artificial cells

Entropy

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2488-2511

  Mavelli, Fabio ^a   Altamura, Emiliano ^a   Cassidei, Luigi ^a   Stano, Pasquale ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autopoiesis; Lipid vesicles; Osmotic synchronization; Protocells; Self reproduction; Stochastic simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901433488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e16052488     Document Type: Review

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