Evolution of joint cooperation under phenotypic variations
| Autor: | Joseph H. W. Lee, Long Wang, Te Wu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
genetic structures media_common.quotation_subject Population lcsh:Medicine Context (language use) Biology 01 natural sciences Models Biological Competition (biology) Article 03 medical and health sciences Biological variation 0103 physical sciences 010306 general physics Evolutionary dynamics education lcsh:Science media_common education.field_of_study Multidisciplinary lcsh:R Biological evolution respiratory system Phenotype Biological Evolution 030104 developmental biology Biological Variation Population Evolutionary biology lcsh:Q human activities Diversity (business) |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports Scientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Popis: | Effects of phenotypic variation on the species-environment systems and the evolution of cooperation under prescribed phenotypic diversity have been well addressed respectively. Interspecies interactions in the context of evolvable phenotypic diversity remain largely unconsidered. We address the evolutionary dynamics by considering evolvable phenotypic variations under group interactions. Each individual carries a capacitor of phenotypes and pays a cost proportional to its volume. A random phenotype from the capacitor is expressed and the population is thus divided into subpopulations. Group interactions happen in each of these subpopulations, respectively. Competition is global. Results show that phenotypic diversity coevolves with cooperation under a wide range of conditions and that tradeoff between expanding capacitor and rising cost leads to an optimal level of phenotypic diversity best promoting cooperation. We also find that evolved high levels of phenotypic diversity can occasionally collapse due to the invasion of defector mutants, suggesting that cooperation and phenotypic diversity can mutually reinforce each other. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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