Punctuated equilibrium in an evolving bacterial population
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v2 q-bio
Abstract
Recently, Lenski et al have carried out an experiment on bacterial evolution. Their findings support the theory of punctuated equilibrium in biological evolution. We show that the M=2 Bak-Sneppen model can explain some of the experimental results in a qualitative manner.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9902135,
title = {Punctuated equilibrium in an evolving bacterial population},
author = {Indranath Chaudhuri and Indrani Bose},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9902135},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
LaTeX, Five PS figures, Accepted for publication in Physica A, 1st August, 1999