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Some models for selection of biological macromolecules with time varying constraints

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We consider some models for selection in self-reproducing macromolecular systems subject to time varying environmental constraints. We show that many of the results concerning selection obtained previously for stationary constraints may be generalized and that the over-all selective behaviour even in complex enzyme coupled systems is basically the same under the time varying external conditions as it is in the stationary case.

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  1. Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

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Jones, B.L. Some models for selection of biological macromolecules with time varying constraints. Bltn Mathcal Biology 41, 849–859 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02462382

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