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q-bio.NC2013★ 122 cited
Zipf's law and criticality in multivariate data without fine-tuning
David J. Schwab, Ilya Nemenman, Pankaj Mehta
The joint probability distribution of many degrees of freedom in biological systems, such as firing patterns in neural networks or antibody sequence composition in zebrafish, often…
q-bio.PE2013★ 236 cited
A phase transition between the niche and neutral regimes in ecology
Charles K. Fisher, Pankaj Mehta
An ongoing debate in ecology concerns the impacts of ecological drift and selection on community assembly. Here, we show that there is a sharp phase transition in diverse ecologica…