Bacterial Evolution and Bak-Sneppen Model
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1 q-bio
Abstract
Recently, Lenski et al [Elena,Lenski,Travisano] have carried out several experiments on bacterial evolution. Their findings support the theory of punctuated equilibrium in biological evolution. They have further quantified the relative contributions of adaptation, chance and history to bacterial evolution. In this paper, we show that a modified -trait Bak-Sneppen model can explain many of the experimental results in a qualitative manner.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0206443,
title = {Bacterial Evolution and Bak-Sneppen Model},
author = {Indrani Bose and Indranath Chaudhuri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0206443},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, 4 figures, latex