Group behaviour in physical, chemical and biological systems

Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 177-189

  Saçlioǧlu, Cihan ^a   Pekcan, Önder ^b   Nanjundiah, Vidyanand ^c  

^a SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KADIR HAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Cooperation; Epidemic; Gelation; Identical particles; Pauli exclusion principle; Percolation; Relativistic quantum field theory; Representations of the Poincare group; Social selection; Stability and identity of DNA; Swelling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DNA; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FIELDWORK; PERCOLATION; POLYMER; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SWELLING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COOPERATION; GELATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; GEL; GENETIC SELECTION; MASS BEHAVIOR; PHASE TRANSITION; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

GEL; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ANIMALS; GELS; HUMANS; MASS BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHASE TRANSITION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 84904181042     PISSN: 02505991     EISSN: 09737138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12038-013-9398-4     Document Type: Article

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