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q-bio.PE2023
Error-induced extinction in a multi-type critical birth-death process
Meritxell Brunet Guasch, P. L. Krapivsky, Tibor Antal
Extreme mutation rates in microbes and cancer cells can result in error-induced extinction (EEX), where every descendant cell eventually acquires a lethal mutation. In this work, w…
q-bio.PE2020
Epidemics with containment measures
Ginestra Bianconi, Pavel L. Krapivsky
We propose a tractable epidemic model that includes containment measures. In the absence of containment measures, the epidemics spread exponentially fast whenever the infectivity r…