Evolutionary dynamics of incubation periods

Ottino-Loffler, B., Scott, J. G., & Strogatz, S. H. (2017). Evolutionary dynamics of incubation periods. ELife, 6. http://ift.tt/2DCblQ4 (open access) Abstract: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 […]

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