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q-bio.PE2012★ 4 cited
Defensive complexity and the phylogenetic conservation of immune control
Erick Chastain, Rustom Antia, Carl T. Bergstrom
One strategy for winning a coevolutionary struggle is to evolve rapidly. Most of the literature on host-pathogen coevolution focuses on this phenomenon, and looks for consequent ev…
q-bio.PE2008
The transmission sense of information
C. T. Bergstrom, M. Rosvall
Biologists rely heavily on the language of information, coding, and transmission that is commonplace in the field of information theory as developed by Claude Shannon, but there is…
q-bio.PE2005
The fitness value of information
Carl T. Bergstrom, Michael Lachmann
Biologists measure information in different ways. Neurobiologists and researchers in bioinformatics often measure information using information-theoretic measures such as Shannon's…