A dynamical phase transition in a model for evolution with migration

Details A dynamical phase transition in a model for evolution with migration A dynamical phase transition in a model for evolution with migration

2010-08-04

arxiv.org/abs/1008.0724v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 268101 (2010)

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

4+ pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.268101

Migration between different habitats is ubiquitous among biological populations. In this Letter, we study a simple quasispecies model for evolution in two different habitats, with different fitness landscapes, coupled through one-way migration. Our model applies to asexual, rapidly evolving organisms such as microbes. Our key finding is a dynamical phase transition at a critical value of the migration rate. The time to reach steady state diverges at this critical migration rate. Above the transition, the population is dominated by immigrants from the primary habitat. Below the transition, the genetic composition of the population is highly non-trivial, with multiple coexisting quasispecies which are not native to either habitat. Using results from localization theory, we show that the critical migration rate may be very small --- demonstrating that evolutionary outcomes can be very sensitive to even a small amount of migration.

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