Evolution of polymorphism and sympatric speciation through competition in a unimodal distribution of resources

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2005-05-09

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0505017v2

Physica A 376 (2007) 378

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

7 pages, 6 figures, changed content

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A microscopic agent dynamical model for diploid age-structured populations is used to study evolution of polymorphism and sympatric speciation. The underlying ecology is represented by a unimodal distribution of resources of some width. Competition among individuals is also described by a similar distribution, and its strength is maximum for individuals with the same phenotype and decreases with distance in phenotype space as a gaussian, with some width. These two widths define the model's phase space, in which we identify the regions where an autonomous emergence of stable polymorphism or speciation is more likely.

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