Article
Quasispecies in population of compositional assemblies.
BMC evolutionary biology - 30 Dec 2014
Gross Renan, Fouxon Itzhak, Lancet Doron, Markovitch Omer
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The quasispecies model refers to information carriers that undergo self-replication with errors. A quasispecies is a steady-state population of biopolymer sequence variants generated by mutations from a master sequence. A quasispecies error threshold is a minimal replication accuracy below which the population structure breaks down. Theory and experimentation of this model often refer to biopolymers,...
Topics
- Cells
- Computer Simulation
- Models, Chemical
- Mutation
- RNA