Published July 15, 2007
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Frequency-dependent selection in a periodic environment
- Creators
- Forster, Robert
- Wilke, Claus O.
Abstract
We examine the action of natural selection in a periodically changing environment where two competing strains are specialists, respectively, for each environmental state. When the relative fitness of the strains is subject to a very general class of frequency-dependent selection, we show that coexistence rather than extinction is the likely outcome. This coexistence may be a stable periodic equilibrium, stable limit cycles of varying lengths, or be deterministically chaotic. Our model is applicable to the population dynamics commonly found in many types of viruses.
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© 2007 Elsevier B.V. Received 22 December 2006, Available online 18 March 2007. C.O.W. was supported by NIH Grant AI 065960.Attached Files
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- PMC2031831
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- 72294
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20161128-082956976
- AI 065960
- NIH
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