Simulated emergence of cyclic sexual-asexual reproduction

Citation
Jss. Martins et A. Racco, Simulated emergence of cyclic sexual-asexual reproduction, PHYSICA A, 297(3-4), 2001, pp. 485-494
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICA A
ISSN journal
03784371 → ACNP
Volume
297
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
2001
Pages
485 - 494
Database
ISI
SICI code
0378-4371(20010815)297:3-4<485:SEOCSR>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Motivated by the cyclic pattern of reproductive regimes observed in some sp ecies of green flies ("aphids"), we simulate the evolution of a population enduring harsh seasonal conditions for survival. The reproductive regime of each female is also seasonal in principle and genetically acquired, and ca n mutate for each newborn with some small probability. The results show a s harp transition at a critical value of the survival probability in the wint er, between a reproductive regime in the fall that is predominantly sexual, for low values of this probability, or asexual, for high values. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.