Selection dynamics in transient compartmentalization
arXiv:1802.00208 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.158101
Abstract
Transient compartments have been recently shown to be able to maintain functional replicators in the context of prebiotic studies. Motivated by this experiment, we show that a broad class of selection dynamics is able to achieve this goal. We identify two key parameters, the relative amplification of non-active replicators (parasites) and the size of compartments. Since the basic ingredients of our model are the competition between a host and its parasite, and the diversity generated by small size compartments, our results are relevant to various phage-bacteria or virus-host ecology problems.
arXiv comment11 pages, 10 figures
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