Modelling lipid competition dynamics in heterogeneous protocell populations

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Shirt Ediss, Ben ^a,b   Ruiz Mirazo, Kepa ^b,c   Mavelli, Fabio ^d   Solé, Ricard V ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^e SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOSOME; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ARTIFICIAL CELL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS;

ARTIFICIAL CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; LIPOSOMES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

EID: 84904479928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05675     Document Type: Article

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