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Paradoxes in Leaky Microbial Trade
Yoav Kallus, John H. Miller, Eric Libby
Microbes produce metabolic resources that are important for cell growth yet leak across membranes into the extracellular environment. Other microbes in the same environment can use…
A quantitative definition of organismality and its application to lichen
Eric Libby, Joshua Grochow, Simon DeDeo +1
The organism is a fundamental concept in biology. However there is no universally accepted, formal, and yet broadly applicable definition of what an organism is. Here we introduce…
Strategic tradeoffs in competitor dynamics on adaptive networks
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Antoine Allard, Pierre-André Noël +2
Recent empirical work highlights the heterogeneity of social competitions such as political campaigns: proponents of some ideologies seek debate and conversation, others create ech…
Dynamics of beneficial epidemics
Andrew Berdahl, Christa Brelsford, Caterina De Bacco +12
Pathogens can spread epidemically through populations. Beneficial contagions, such as viruses that enhance host survival or technological innovations that improve quality of life,…
Optimal high-level descriptions of dynamical systems
David H. Wolpert, Joshua A. Grochow, Eric Libby +1
To analyze high-dimensional systems, many fields in science and engineering rely on high-level descriptions, sometimes called "macrostates," "coarse-grainings," or "effective theor…