Quasi-Species and Aggregate Dynamics

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2005-11-28

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0511044v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

6 pages

Scientific paper

At an early stage in pre-biotic evolution, groups of replicating molecules must coordinate their reproduction to form aggregated units of selection. Mechanisms that enable this to occur are currently not well understood. In this paper we introduce a deterministic model of primitive replicating aggregates, proto-organisms, that host populations of replicating information carrying molecules. Some of the molecules promote the reproduction of the proto-organism at the cost of their individual replication rate. A situation resembling that of group selection arises. We derive and analytically solve a partial differential equation that describes the system. We find that the relative prevalence of fast and slow replicators is determined by the relative strength of selection at the aggregate level to the selection strength at the molecular level. The analysis is concluded by a preliminary treatment of finite population size effects.

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