Eigen quasispecies error threshold

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Virology subtree

Eigen 1971 quasispecies model: replicator-mutator dynamics on Hamming-cube genome space. Master sequence persists only if μ < ln(s)/L (error threshold). Predicts catastrophic loss of fitness peak for RNA viruses near μ_c — basis of…

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