Simulated Coevolution in a Mutating Ecology
arXiv:cond-mat/9910428 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.61.R2212
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.
4 pages, 3 figures, minor revision in text and 2 added references