Physical Review LettersBiophysicsPeer-reviewed journal article
Selection dynamics in transient compartmentalization
Abstract
Transient compartments have been recently shown to be able to maintain functional replicators in the context of prebiotic studies. Motivated by this experiment, we show that a broad class of selection dynamics is able to achieve this goal. We identify two key parameters, the relative amplification of non-active replicators (parasites) and the size of compartments. Since the basic ingredients of our model are the competition between a host and its parasite, and the diversity generated by small size compartments, our results are relevant to various phage-bacteria or virus-host ecology problems.\n\nPACS numbers: 05.40.-a, 87.14.G-, 87.23.Kg
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