Characteristic time in quasispecies evolution
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Characteristic time in quasispecies evolution.
The time a phenotype takes to achieve a stationary state from an initial condition depends on multiple factors. In particular, it is a function of both its fitness and its mutation rate. We evaluate the average time, referred to as the characteristic time, T(c), that the system takes to reach a final steady state of simple models of populations formed by self-replicative sequences. The dependen...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Theoretical Biology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.02.029