Toward the Darwinian transition: Switching between distributed and speciated states in a simple model of early life

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Arnoldt, Hinrich ^a   Strogatz, Steven H ^b   Timme, Marc ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; GENE TRANSFER; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DARWINIAN EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; GENETIC MATERIALS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LAST UNIVERSAL COMMON ANCESTORS; MINIMAL MODEL; SIMPLE MODELING; STOCHASTIC SWITCHING;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MARKOV CHAIN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MODELS, GENETIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84949255558     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.052909     Document Type: Article

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