2 papers
q-bio.PE2019
Diversity in Biology: definitions, quantification, and models
Song Xu, Lucas Böttcher, Tom Chou
Diversity indices are useful single-number metrics for characterizing a complex distribution of a set of attributes across a population of interest. The utility of these different…
q-bio.PE2018
Immigration-induced phase transition in a regulated multispecies birth-death process
Song Xu, Tom Chou
Power-law-distributed species counts or clone counts arise in many biological settings such as multispecies cell populations, population genetics, and ecology. This empirical obser…