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Field theory for a reaction-diffusion model of quasispecies dynamics.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics - 1 Nov 2001
Pastor-Satorras R, Solé R V
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RNA viruses are known to replicate with extremely high mutation rates. These rates are actually close to the so-called error threshold. This threshold is in fact a critical point beyond which genetic information is lost through a second-order phase transition, which has been dubbed as the "error catastrophe." Here we explore this phenomenon using a field theory approximation to the spatially extended...
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