Simulated Coevolution in a Mutating Ecology
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v2 q-bio
Abstract
The bit-string Penna Model is used to simulate the competition between an asexual parthenogenetic and a sexual population sharing the same environment. A new-born of either population can mutate and become a part of the other with some probability. In a stable environment the sexual population soon dies out. When an infestation by fastly mutating genetically coupled parasites is introduced however, sexual reproduction prevails, as predicted by the so-called Red Queen hypothesis for the evolution of sex.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9910428,
title = {Simulated Coevolution in a Mutating Ecology},
author = {J. S. Sa' Martins},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9910428},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures, minor revision in text and 2 added references