Stochastic Penna model for biological aging
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1 Biological Physics
Populations and Evolution
Abstract
A stochastic genetic model for biological aging is introduced bridging the gap between the bit-string Penna model and the Pletcher-Neuhauser approach. The phenomenon of exponentially increasing mortality function at intermediate ages and its deceleration at advanced ages is reproduced for both the evolutionary steady-state population and the genetically homogeneous individuals.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0007473,
title = {Stochastic Penna model for biological aging},
author = {Zhi-Feng Huang and Dietrich Stauffer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0007473},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages with 3 figures; to appear in Theory in Biosciences