Well-temperate phage: Optimal bet-hedging against local environmental collapses

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Maslov, Sergei ^a   Sneppen, Kim ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84934881016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10523     Document Type: Article

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