Testing a hypothesis for the evolution of sex
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Biological Physics
Populations and Evolution
Abstract
An asexual set of primitive bacteria is simulated with a bit-string Penna model with a Fermi function for survival. A recent hypothesis by Jan, Stauffer and Moseley on the evolution of sex from asexual cells as a strategy for trying to escape the effects of deleterious mutations is checked. This strategy is found to provide a successful scenario for the evolution of a stable macroscopic sexual population.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0007120,
title = {Testing a hypothesis for the evolution of sex},
author = {Bora Orcal and Erkan Tuzel and Volkan Sevim and Naeem Jan and Ayse Erzan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0007120},
year = {2009}
}
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RevTeX, 9 pages, multicolumn, including 8 figures