Analytical solution of a generalized Penna model
Populations and Evolution
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
In 1995 T.J.Penna introduced a simple model of biological aging. A modified Penna model has been demonstrated to exhibit behaviour of real-life systems including catastrophic senescence in salmon and a mortality plateau at advanced ages. We present a general steady-state, analytic solution to the Penna model, able to deal with arbitrary birth and survivability functions. This solution is employed to solve standard variant Penna models studied by simulation. Different Verhulst factors regulating both the birth rate and external death rate are considered.
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@article{arxiv.q-bio/0411007,
title = {Analytical solution of a generalized Penna model},
author = {J. B. Coe and Y. Mao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:q-bio/0411007},
year = {2007}
}
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