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Feasibility as a moving target: Fluctuating species interactions lead to universal power law in equilibrium abundances
Cagatay Eskin, Vu Nguyen, Dervis Can Vural
Theoretical ecology has traditionally equated persistence with the stability of a fixed equilibrium point. Here we argue that the primary threat to ecosystem persistence need not b…
Evolutionary Hysteresis: Cycling about in a Rugged Landscape
Luke Piszkin, Dervis Can Vural
In this work, we integrate theoretical modeling, molecular simulation, and empirical analysis to identify and characterize evolutionary hysteresis. We first show how epistatic inte…
Extinction and Extirpation Conditions in Coalescent and Ecotonal Metacommunities
Martin Heidelman, Dervis Can Vural
Here we present extinction, extirpation and coexistence conditions where / when two communities combine. We consider one specific model where two communities coalesce, and another…
On the possibility of engineering social evolution in microfluidic environments
Gurdip Uppal, Dervis Can Vural
Many species of microbes cooperate by producing public goods from which they collectively benefit. However, these populations are under the risk of being taken over by cheating mut…
Suppressing evolution through environmental switching
Bryce Morsky, Dervis Can Vural
Ecology and evolution under changing environments are important in many subfields of biology with implications for medicine. Here, we explore an example: the consequences of fluctu…
Evolution of chemotactic hitchhiking
Gurdip Uppal, Weiyi Hu, Dervis Can Vural
Bacteria typically reside in heterogeneous environments with various chemogradients where motile cells can gain an advantage over non-motile cells. Since motility is energetically…