Evolutionary dynamics of incubation periods

The incubation period for typhoid, polio, measles, leukemia and many other diseases follows a right-skewed, approximately lognormal distribution. Although this pattern was discovered more than sixty years ago, it remains an open question to explain its ubiquity. Here, we propose an explanation based...

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Main Authors: Bertrand Ottino-Loffler, Jacob G Scott, Steven H Strogatz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2017-12-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/30212