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Hellouin de Menibus B, Le Borgne Y. Asymptotic behaviour of the one-dimensional “rock–paper–scissors” cyclic cellular automaton. ANN APPL PROBAB 2021. [DOI: 10.1214/20-aap1651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, Université Bordeaux
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Yoshida T, Mizoguchi T, Hatsugai Y. Chiral edge modes in evolutionary game theory: A kagome network of rock-paper-scissors cycles. Phys Rev E 2021; 104:025003. [PMID: 34525642 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.104.025003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2021] [Accepted: 07/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We theoretically demonstrate the realization of a chiral edge mode in a system beyond natural science. Specifically, we elucidate that a kagome network of rock-paper-scissors (K-RPS) hosts a chiral edge mode of the population density which is protected by the nontrivial topology in the bulk. The emergence of the chiral edge mode is demonstrated by numerically solving the Lotka-Volterra (LV) equation. This numerical result can be intuitively understood in terms of the cyclic motion of a single rock-paper-scissors cycle, which is analogous to the cyclotron motion of fermions. Furthermore, we point out that a linearized LV equation is mathematically equivalent to the Schrödinger equation describing quantum systems. This equivalence allows us to clarify the topological origin of the chiral edge mode in the K-RPS; a nonzero Chern number of the payoff matrix induces the chiral edge mode of the population density, which exemplifies the bulk-edge correspondence in two-dimensional systems described by evolutionary game theory.
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- Tsuneya Yoshida
- Department of Physics, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Department of Physics, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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In simple dyadic games such as rock, paper, scissors (RPS), people exhibit peculiar sequential dependencies across repeated interactions with a stable opponent. These regularities seem to arise from a mutually adversarial process of trying to outwit their opponent. What underlies this process, and what are its limits? Here, we offer a novel framework for formally describing and quantifying human adversarial reasoning in the rock, paper, scissors game. We first show that this framework enables a precise characterization of the complexity of patterned behaviors that people exhibit themselves, and appear to exploit in others. This combination allows for a quantitative understanding of human opponent modeling abilities. We apply these tools to an experiment in which people played 300 rounds of RPS in stable dyads. We find that although people exhibit very complex move dependencies, they cannot exploit these dependencies in their opponents, indicating a fundamental limitation in people’s capacity for adversarial reasoning. Taken together, the results presented here show how the rock, paper, scissors game allows for precise formalization of human adaptive reasoning abilities.
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Chowdhury SN, Kundu S, Perc M, Ghosh D. Complex evolutionary dynamics due to punishment and free space in ecological multigames. Proc Math Phys Eng Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2021.0397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The concurrence of ecological and evolutionary processes often arises as an integral part of various biological and social systems. We here study eco-evolutionary dynamics by adopting two paradigmatic metaphors of social dilemmas with contrasting outcomes. We use the Prisoner’s Dilemma and Snowdrift games as the backbone of the proposed mathematical model. Since cooperation is a costly proposition in the face of the Darwinian theory of evolution, we go beyond the traditional framework by introducing punishment as an additional strategy. Punishers bare an additional cost from their own resources to try and discourage or prohibit free-riding from selfish defectors. Our model also incorporates the ecological signature of free space, which has an altruistic-like impact because it allows others to replicate and potentially thrive. We show that the consideration of these factors has broad implications for better understanding the emergent complex evolutionary dynamics. In particular, we report the simultaneous presence of different subpopulations through the spontaneous emergence of cyclic dominance, and we determine various stationary points using traditional game-theoretic concepts and stability analysis.
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- Sayantan Nag Chowdhury
- Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B. T. Road, Kolkata 700108, India
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- Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B. T. Road, Kolkata 700108, India
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- Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroška cesta 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
- Alma Mater Europaea, Slovenska ulica, 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
- Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
- Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Josefstädterstraße 39, 1080 Vienna, Austria
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- Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B. T. Road, Kolkata 700108, India
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Vidiella B, Fontich E, Valverde S, Sardanyés J. Habitat loss causes long extinction transients in small trophic chains. THEOR ECOL-NETH 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s12080-021-00509-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Menezes J. Antipredator behavior in the rock-paper-scissors model. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:052216. [PMID: 34134300 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.052216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2021] [Accepted: 05/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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When faced with an imminent risk of predation, many animals react to escape consumption. Antipredator strategies are performed by individuals acting as a group to intimidate predators and minimize the damage when attacked. We study the antipredator prey response in spatial tritrophic systems with cyclic species dominance using the rock-paper-scissors game. The impact of the antipredator behavior is local, with the predation probability reducing exponentially with the number of prey in the predator's neighborhood. In contrast to the standard Lotka-Volterra implementation of the rock-paper-scissors model, where no spiral waves appear, our outcomes show that the antipredator behavior leads to spiral patterns from random initial conditions. The results show that the predation risk decreases exponentially with the level of antipredator strength. Finally, we investigate the coexistence probability and verify that antipredator behavior may jeopardize biodiversity for high mobility. Our findings may help biologists to understand ecosystems formed by species whose individuals behave strategically to resist predation.
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- J Menezes
- Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Caixa Postal 1524, 59072-970 Natal, RN, Brazil and Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Bazeia D, Ferreira MJB, Oliveira BFD, Szolnoki A. Environment driven oscillation in an off-lattice May-Leonard model. Sci Rep 2021; 11:12512. [PMID: 34131239 PMCID: PMC8206140 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-91994-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 05/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Cyclic dominance of competing species is an intensively used working hypothesis to explain biodiversity in certain living systems, where the evolutionary selection principle would dictate a single victor otherwise. Technically the May–Leonard models offer a mathematical framework to describe the mentioned non-transitive interaction of competing species when individual movement is also considered in a spatial system. Emerging rotating spirals composed by the competing species are frequently observed character of the resulting patterns. But how do these spiraling patterns change when we vary the external environment which affects the general vitality of individuals? Motivated by this question we suggest an off-lattice version of the tradition May–Leonard model which allows us to change the actual state of the environment gradually. This can be done by introducing a local carrying capacity parameter which value can be varied gently in an off-lattice environment. Our results support a previous analysis obtained in a more intricate metapopulation model and we show that the well-known rotating spirals become evident in a benign environment when the general density of the population is high. The accompanying time-dependent oscillation of competing species can also be detected where the amplitude and the frequency show a scaling law of the parameter that characterizes the state of the environment. These observations highlight that the assumed non-transitive interaction alone is insufficient condition to maintain biodiversity safely, but the actual state of the environment, which characterizes the general living conditions, also plays a decisive role on the evolution of related systems.
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- D Bazeia
- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB, 58051-970, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo 5790, Maringá, PR, 87020-900, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo 5790, Maringá, PR, 87020-900, Brazil
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- Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Centre for Energy Research, P.O. Box 49, Budapest, 1525, Hungary.
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Kleshnina M, Streipert SS, Filar JA, Chatterjee K. Mistakes can stabilise the dynamics of rock-paper-scissors games. PLoS Comput Biol 2021; 17:e1008523. [PMID: 33844680 PMCID: PMC8062094 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 03/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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A game of rock-paper-scissors is an interesting example of an interaction where none of the pure strategies strictly dominates all others, leading to a cyclic pattern. In this work, we consider an unstable version of rock-paper-scissors dynamics and allow individuals to make behavioural mistakes during the strategy execution. We show that such an assumption can break a cyclic relationship leading to a stable equilibrium emerging with only one strategy surviving. We consider two cases: completely random mistakes when individuals have no bias towards any strategy and a general form of mistakes. Then, we determine conditions for a strategy to dominate all other strategies. However, given that individuals who adopt a dominating strategy are still prone to behavioural mistakes in the observed behaviour, we may still observe extinct strategies. That is, behavioural mistakes in strategy execution stabilise evolutionary dynamics leading to an evolutionary stable and, potentially, mixed co-existence equilibrium.
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- Maria Kleshnina
- Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Moura B, Menezes J. Behavioural movement strategies in cyclic models. Sci Rep 2021; 11:6413. [PMID: 33742025 PMCID: PMC7979998 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-85590-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Accepted: 02/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The spatial segregation of species is fundamental to ecosystem formation and stability. Behavioural strategies may determine where species are located and how their interactions change the local environment arrangement. In response to stimuli in the environment, individuals may move in a specific direction instead of walking randomly. This behaviour can be innate or learned from experience, and allow the individuals to conquer or the maintain territory, foraging or taking refuge. We study a generalisation of the spatial rock-paper-scissors model where individuals of one out of the species may perform directional movement tactics. Running a series of stochastic simulations, we investigate the effects of the behavioural tactics on the spatial pattern formation and the maintenance of the species diversity. We also explore a more realistic scenario, where not all individuals are conditioned to perform the behavioural strategy or have different levels of neighbourhood perception. Our outcomes show that self-preservation behaviour is more profitable in terms of territorial dominance, with the best result being achieved when all individuals are conditioned and have a long-range vicinity perception. On the other hand, invading is more advantageous if part of individuals is conditioned and if they have short-range neighbourhood perception. Finally, our findings reveal that the self-defence strategy is the least jeopardising to biodiversity which can help biologists to understand population dynamics in a setting where individuals may move strategically.
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- B Moura
- Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Caixa Postal 1524, Natal, RN, 59072-970, Brazil
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- Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Caixa Postal 1524, Natal, RN, 59072-970, Brazil. .,Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Mayo-Wilson C, Zollman KJS. The computational philosophy: simulation as a core philosophical method. SYNTHESE 2021; 199:3647-3673. [PMID: 33716324 PMCID: PMC7944252 DOI: 10.1007/s11229-020-02950-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2019] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Modeling and computer simulations, we claim, should be considered core philosophical methods. More precisely, we will defend two theses. First, philosophers should use simulations for many of the same reasons we currently use thought experiments. In fact, simulations are superior to thought experiments in achieving some philosophical goals. Second, devising and coding computational models instill good philosophical habits of mind. Throughout the paper, we respond to the often implicit objection that computer modeling is "not philosophical."
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- Conor Mayo-Wilson
- Department of Philosophy, University of Washington, Savery Hall, Room 361, Box 353350 , Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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- Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Baker Hall 161, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 USA
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Nag Chowdhury S, Kundu S, Banerjee J, Perc M, Ghosh D. Eco-evolutionary dynamics of cooperation in the presence of policing. J Theor Biol 2021; 518:110606. [PMID: 33582077 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2021.110606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 12/31/2020] [Accepted: 01/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Ecology and evolution are inherently linked, and studying a mathematical model that considers both holds promise of insightful discoveries related to the dynamics of cooperation. In the present article, we use the prisoner's dilemma (PD) game as a basis for long-term apprehension of the essential social dilemma related to cooperation among unrelated individuals. We upgrade the contemporary PD game with an inclusion of evolution-induced act of punishment as a third competing strategy in addition to the traditional cooperators and defectors. In a population structure, the abundance of ecologically-viable free space often regulates the reproductive opportunities of the constituents. Hence, additionally, we consider the availability of free space as an ecological footprint, thus arriving at a simple eco-evolutionary model, which displays fascinating complex dynamics. As possible outcomes, we report the individual dominance of cooperators and defectors as well as a plethora of mixed states, where different strategies coexist followed by maintaining the diversity in a socio-ecological framework. These states can either be steady or oscillating, whereby oscillations are sustained by cyclic dominance among different combinations of cooperators, defectors, and punishers. We also observe a novel route to cyclic dominance where cooperators, punishers, and defectors enter a coexistence via an inverse Hopf bifurcation that is followed by an inverse period doubling route.
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- Sayantan Nag Chowdhury
- Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B. T. Road, Kolkata 700108, India
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- Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B. T. Road, Kolkata 700108, India
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- BYJU'S, Think & Learn Pvt. Ltd., IBC Knowledge Park, 4/1 Bannerghatta Main Road, Bangalore 560029, India.
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- Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroška cesta 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia; Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Josefstädterstraße 39, 1080 Vienna, Austria.
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- Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B. T. Road, Kolkata 700108, India.
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Shen C, Jusup M, Shi L, Wang Z, Perc M, Holme P. Exit rights open complex pathways to cooperation. J R Soc Interface 2021; 18:20200777. [PMID: 33435841 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2020.0777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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We study the evolutionary dynamics of the Prisoner's Dilemma game in which cooperators and defectors interact with another actor type called exiters. Rather than being exploited by defectors, exiters exit the game in favour of a small pay-off. We find that this simple extension of the game allows cooperation to flourish in well-mixed populations when iterations or reputation are added. In networked populations, however, the exit option is less conducive to cooperation. Instead, it enables the coexistence of cooperators, defectors, and exiters through cyclic dominance. Other outcomes are also possible as the exit pay-off increases or the network structure changes, including network-wide oscillations in actor abundances that may cause the extinction of exiters and the domination of defectors, although game parameters should favour exiting. The complex dynamics that emerges in the wake of a simple option to exit the game implies that nuances matter even if our analyses are restricted to incentives for rational behaviour.
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- Chen Shen
- School of Statistics and Mathematics, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming 650221, People's Republic of China.,Tokyo Tech World Hub Research Initiative, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
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- Tokyo Tech World Hub Research Initiative, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
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- School of Statistics and Mathematics, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming 650221, People's Republic of China
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- Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL) and School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China
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- Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia.,Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung 404332, Taiwan, Republic of China.,Complexity Science Hub Vienna, 1080 Vienna, Austria
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- Tokyo Tech World Hub Research Initiative, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
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Knebel J, Geiger PM, Frey E. Topological Phase Transition in Coupled Rock-Paper-Scissors Cycles. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 125:258301. [PMID: 33416395 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.258301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2020] [Revised: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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A hallmark of topological phases is the occurrence of topologically protected modes at the system's boundary. Here, we find topological phases in the antisymmetric Lotka-Volterra equation (ALVE). The ALVE is a nonlinear dynamical system and describes, for example, the evolutionary dynamics of a rock-paper-scissors cycle. On a one-dimensional chain of rock-paper-scissor cycles, topological phases become manifest as robust polarization states. At the transition point between left and right polarization, solitary waves are observed. This topological phase transition lies in symmetry class D within the "tenfold way" classification as also realized by 1D topological superconductors.
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- Johannes Knebel
- Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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- Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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- Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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Denisov S, Vershinina O, Thingna J, Hänggi P, Ivanchenko M. Quasi-stationary states of game-driven systems: A dynamical approach. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2020; 30:123145. [PMID: 33380033 DOI: 10.1063/5.0019736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2020] [Accepted: 12/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Evolutionary game theory is a framework to formalize the evolution of collectives ("populations") of competing agents that are playing a game and, after every round, update their strategies to maximize individual payoffs. There are two complementary approaches to modeling evolution of player populations. The first addresses essentially finite populations by implementing the apparatus of Markov chains. The second assumes that the populations are infinite and operates with a system of mean-field deterministic differential equations. By using a model of two antagonistic populations, which are playing a game with stationary or periodically varying payoffs, we demonstrate that it exhibits metastable dynamics that is reducible neither to an immediate transition to a fixation (extinction of all but one strategy in a finite-size population) nor to the mean-field picture. In the case of stationary payoffs, this dynamics can be captured with a system of stochastic differential equations and interpreted as a stochastic Hopf bifurcation. In the case of varying payoffs, the metastable dynamics is much more complex than the dynamics of the means.
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- Sergey Denisov
- Department of Computer Science, Oslo Metropolitan University, N-0130 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Applied Mathematics, Lobachevsky University, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems (IBS), Daejeon 34126, South Korea
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- Institut für Physik, Universität Augsburg, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany
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- Department of Applied Mathematics, Lobachevsky University, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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Liao MJ, Miano A, Nguyen CB, Chao L, Hasty J. Survival of the weakest in non-transitive asymmetric interactions among strains of E. coli. Nat Commun 2020; 11:6055. [PMID: 33247128 PMCID: PMC7699631 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19963-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2020] [Accepted: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Hierarchical organization in ecology, whereby interactions are nested in a manner that leads to a dominant species, naturally result in the exclusion of all but the dominant competitor. Alternatively, non-hierarchical competitive dynamics, such as cyclical interactions, can sustain biodiversity. Here, we designed a simple microbial community with three strains of E. coli that cyclically interact through (i) the inhibition of protein production, (ii) the digestion of genomic DNA, and (iii) the disruption of the cell membrane. We find that intrinsic differences in these three major mechanisms of bacterial warfare lead to an unbalanced community that is dominated by the weakest strain. We also use a computational model to describe how the relative toxin strengths, initial fractional occupancies, and spatial patterns affect the maintenance of biodiversity. The engineering of active warfare between microbial species establishes a framework for exploration of the underlying principles that drive complex ecological interactions. The maintenance of ecological diversity depends on the strength and direction of competitive interactions, but these interactions are difficult to study in microbial communities. Here the authors use engineered E. coli strains to show that competitively weak strains can persist when pairwise interactions are asymmetrical.
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- Michael J Liao
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.,BioCircuits Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.,BioCircuits Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Section of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. .,BioCircuits Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. .,Molecular Biology Section, Division of Biological Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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Garde R, Ewald J, Kovács ÁT, Schuster S. Modelling population dynamics in a unicellular social organism community using a minimal model and evolutionary game theory. Open Biol 2020; 10:200206. [PMID: 33142084 PMCID: PMC7729035 DOI: 10.1098/rsob.200206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Most unicellular organisms live in communities and express different phenotypes. Many efforts have been made to study the population dynamics of such complex communities of cells, coexisting as well-coordinated units. Minimal models based on ordinary differential equations are powerful tools that can help us understand complex phenomena. They represent an appropriate compromise between complexity and tractability; they allow a profound and comprehensive analysis, which is still easy to understand. Evolutionary game theory is another powerful tool that can help us understand the costs and benefits of the decision a particular cell of a unicellular social organism takes when faced with the challenges of the biotic and abiotic environment. This work is a binocular view at the population dynamics of such a community through the objectives of minimal modelling and evolutionary game theory. We test the behaviour of the community of a unicellular social organism at three levels of antibiotic stress. Even in the absence of the antibiotic, spikes in the fraction of resistant cells can be observed indicating the importance of bet hedging. At moderate level of antibiotic stress, we witness cyclic dynamics reminiscent of the renowned rock–paper–scissors game. At a very high level, the resistant type of strategy is the most favourable.
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- Ravindra Garde
- Department of Bioinformatics, Matthias Schleiden Institute, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, 07743 Jena, Germany.,Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Knöll-Strasse 8, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Matthias Schleiden Institute, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Bacterial Interactions and Evolution Group, DTU Bioengineering, Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads Building 221, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Matthias Schleiden Institute, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, 07743 Jena, Germany
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Park HJ, Pichugin Y, Traulsen A. Why is cyclic dominance so rare? eLife 2020; 9:57857. [PMID: 32886604 PMCID: PMC7473768 DOI: 10.7554/elife.57857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Natural populations can contain multiple types of coexisting individuals. How does natural selection maintain such diversity within and across populations? A popular theoretical basis for the maintenance of diversity is cyclic dominance, illustrated by the rock-paper-scissor game. However, it appears difficult to find cyclic dominance in nature. Why is this the case? Focusing on continuously produced novel mutations, we theoretically addressed the rareness of cyclic dominance. We developed a model of an evolving population and studied the formation of cyclic dominance. Our results showed that the chance for cyclic dominance to emerge is lower when the newly introduced type is similar to existing types compared to the introduction of an unrelated type. This suggests that cyclic dominance is more likely to evolve through the assembly of unrelated types whereas it rarely evolves within a community of similar types.
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- Hye Jin Park
- Department of Evolutionary Theory, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany.,Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Evolutionary Theory, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
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- Department of Evolutionary Theory, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
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Bhattacharyya S, Sinha P, De R, Hens C. Mortality makes coexistence vulnerable in evolutionary game of rock-paper-scissors. Phys Rev E 2020; 102:012220. [PMID: 32795013 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.102.012220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2020] [Accepted: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Multiple species in the ecosystem are believed to compete cyclically for maintaining balance in nature. The evolutionary dynamics of cyclic interaction crucially depends on different interactions representing different natural habits. Based on a rock-paper-scissors model of cyclic competition, we explore the role of mortality of individual organisms in the collective survival of a species. For this purpose a parameter called "natural death" is introduced. It is meant for bringing about the decease of an individual irrespective of any intra- and interspecific interaction. We perform a Monte Carlo simulation followed by a stability analysis of different fixed points of defined rate equations and observe that the natural death rate is surprisingly one of the most significant factors in deciding whether an ecosystem would come up with a coexistence or a single-species survival.
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- Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 700108, India
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- Department of Physics, R.R.R Mahavidyalaya, Radhanagar, Hooghly 712406, India
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- Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 700108, India
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Avelino PP, de Oliveira BF, Trintin RS. Performance of weak species in the simplest generalization of the rock-paper-scissors model to four species. Phys Rev E 2020; 101:062312. [PMID: 32688501 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.101.062312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2020] [Accepted: 06/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We investigate the problem of the predominance and survival of "weak" species in the context of the simplest generalization of the spatial stochastic rock-paper-scissors model to four species by considering models in which one, two, or three species have a reduced predation probability. We show, using lattice based spatial stochastic simulations with random initial conditions, that if only one of the four species has its probability reduced, then the most abundant species is the prey of the "weakest" (assuming that the simulations are large enough for coexistence to prevail). Also, among the remaining cases, we present examples in which "weak" and "strong" species have similar average abundances and others in which either of them dominates-the most abundant species being always a prey of a weak species with which it maintains a unidirectional predator-prey interaction. However, in contrast to the three-species model, we find no systematic difference in the global performance of weak and strong species, and we conjecture that a similar result will hold if the number of species is further increased. We also determine the probability of single species survival and coexistence as a function of the lattice size, discussing its dependence on initial conditions and on the change to the dynamics of the model which results from the extinction of one of the species.
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- P P Avelino
- Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade do Porto, CAUP, Rua das Estrelas, PT4150-762 Porto, Portugal.,Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, PT4169-007 Porto, Portugal.,School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Avenida Colombo 5790, 87020-900 Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Avenida Colombo 5790, 87020-900 Maringá, PR, Brazil
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Khanjanianpak M, Azimi-Tafreshi N, Castellano C. Competition between vaccination and disease spreading. Phys Rev E 2020; 101:062306. [PMID: 32688586 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.101.062306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2020] [Accepted: 05/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We study the interaction between epidemic spreading and a vaccination process. We assume that, similar to the disease spreading, the vaccination process also occurs through direct contact, i.e., it follows the standard susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) dynamics. The two competing processes are asymmetrically coupled as vaccinated nodes can directly become infected at a reduced rate with respect to susceptible ones. We study analytically the model in the framework of mean-field theory finding a rich phase diagram. When vaccination provides little protection toward infection, two continuous transitions separate a disease-free immunized state from vaccinated-free epidemic state, with an intermediate mixed state where susceptible, infected, and vaccinated individuals coexist. As vaccine efficiency increases, a tricritical point leads to a bistable regime, and discontinuous phase transitions emerge. Numerical simulations for homogeneous random networks agree very well with analytical predictions.
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- Mozhgan Khanjanianpak
- Physics Department, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, 45195-1159 Zanjan, Iran
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- Physics Department, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, 45195-1159 Zanjan, Iran
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- Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi (ISC-CNR), via dei Taurini 19, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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Cooperation on Interdependent Networks by Means of Migration and Stochastic Imitation. ENTROPY 2020; 22:e22040485. [PMID: 33286258 PMCID: PMC7516967 DOI: 10.3390/e22040485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2020] [Revised: 04/12/2020] [Accepted: 04/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Evolutionary game theory in the realm of network science appeals to a lot of research communities, as it constitutes a popular theoretical framework for studying the evolution of cooperation in social dilemmas. Recent research has shown that cooperation is markedly more resistant in interdependent networks, where traditional network reciprocity can be further enhanced due to various forms of interdependence between different network layers. However, the role of mobility in interdependent networks is yet to gain its well-deserved attention. Here we consider an interdependent network model, where individuals in each layer follow different evolutionary games, and where each player is considered as a mobile agent that can move locally inside its own layer to improve its fitness. Probabilistically, we also consider an imitation possibility from a neighbor on the other layer. We show that, by considering migration and stochastic imitation, further fascinating gateways to cooperation on interdependent networks can be observed. Notably, cooperation can be promoted on both layers, even if cooperation without interdependence would be improbable on one of the layers due to adverse conditions. Our results provide a rationale for engineering better social systems at the interface of networks and human decision making under testing dilemmas.
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Dynamic Evolution of Safety Regulation of the Ridesharing Industry under Social Media Participation. Symmetry (Basel) 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/sym12040560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The emergence of ridesharing has spread against the background of the sharing economy. There have been a lot of controversies since the emergence of ridesharing, particularly regarding regulatory issues. The safety regulation of the ridesharing industry involves many parties, including governments, platform companies, and society at large. Currently, because of the influence of information asymmetry, it increases the uncertainty of governments’ regulation effect and the difficulty of making regulation measures. Meanwhile, social media, one of the most important forces of social regulation, has not paid enough attention to playing an appropriate role in the safety regulation of the ridesharing industry. Therefore, this study constructs an evolutionary game model between governments and platform companies that concerns the safety regulations of ridesharing passengers under social media participation. The influence path of social media is explored by model solution and numerical simulation. Our results indicate that social media participation has a positive impact on this safety regulation. Specifically, social media participation could reduce governments’ regulatory costs and encourage it to strictly regulate. The exposure of social media could bring losses to platform companies involved and promote platform companies’ investments in improving passengers’ safety. This study provides a decision basis for governments to introduce social media in the safety regulation of the ridesharing industry.
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Egbert MD, Jeong V, Postlethwaite CM. Where Computation and Dynamics Meet: Heteroclinic Network-Based Controllers in Evolutionary Robotics. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS 2020; 31:1084-1097. [PMID: 31226088 DOI: 10.1109/tnnls.2019.2917471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In the fields of artificial neural networks and robotics, complicated, often high-dimensional systems can be designed using evolutionary/other algorithms to successfully solve very complex tasks. However, dynamical analysis of the underlying controller can often be near impossible, due to the high dimension and nonlinearities in the system. In this paper, we propose a more restricted form of controller, such that the underlying dynamical systems are forced to contain a dynamical object called a heteroclinic network. Systems containing heteroclinic networks share some properties with finite-state machines (FSMs) but are not discrete: both space and time are still described with continuous variables. Thus, we suggest that the heteroclinic networks can provide a hybrid between continuous and discrete systems. We investigate this innovated architecture in a minimal categorical perception task. The similarity of the controller to an FSM allows us to describe some of the system's behaviors as transition between states. However, other, essential behavior involves subtle ongoing interaction between the controller and the environment that eludes description at this level.
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Guo H, Song Z, Geček S, Li X, Jusup M, Perc M, Moreno Y, Boccaletti S, Wang Z. A novel route to cyclic dominance in voluntary social dilemmas. J R Soc Interface 2020; 17:20190789. [PMID: 32126192 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2019.0789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Cooperation is the backbone of modern human societies, making it a priority to understand how successful cooperation-sustaining mechanisms operate. Cyclic dominance, a non-transitive set-up comprising at least three strategies wherein the first strategy overrules the second, which overrules the third, which, in turn, overrules the first strategy, is known to maintain biodiversity, drive competition between bacterial strains, and preserve cooperation in social dilemmas. Here, we present a novel route to cyclic dominance in voluntary social dilemmas by adding to the traditional mix of cooperators, defectors and loners, a fourth player type, risk-averse hedgers, who enact tit-for-tat upon paying a hedging cost to avoid being exploited. When this cost is sufficiently small, cooperators, defectors and hedgers enter a loop of cyclic dominance that preserves cooperation even under the most adverse conditions. By contrast, when the hedging cost is large, hedgers disappear, consequently reverting to the traditional interplay of cooperators, defectors, and loners. In the interim region of hedging costs, complex evolutionary dynamics ensues, prompting transitions between states with two, three or four competing strategies. Our results thus reveal that voluntary participation is but one pathway to sustained cooperation via cyclic dominance.
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- Hao Guo
- School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China.,Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China.,Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China
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- Division for Marine and Environmental Research, Ruđer Bošković Institute, HR-10002 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China.,School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China
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- Tokyo Tech World Research Hub Initiative (WRHI), Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
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- Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroška cesta 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia.,Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Josefstädterstraße 39, Vienna 1080, Austria.,Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain.,ISI Foundation, Turin 10126, Italy
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- Unmanned Systems Research Institute, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China.,CNR-Institute of Complex Systems, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy.,Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, National Research University, Moscow Region 141701, Russia
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China.,Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China
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Kumar U, Mandal PS, Venturino E. Impact of Allee effect on an eco-epidemiological system. ECOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2020.100828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Baker R, Pleimling M. The effect of habitats and fitness on species coexistence in systems with cyclic dominance. J Theor Biol 2020; 486:110084. [PMID: 31758965 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2019.110084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2019] [Accepted: 11/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Cyclic dominance between species may yield spiral waves that are known to provide a mechanism enabling persistent species coexistence. This observation holds true even in presence of spatial heterogeneity in the form of quenched disorder. In this work we study the effects on spatio-temporal patterns and species coexistence of structured spatial heterogeneity in the form of habitats that locally provide one of the species with an advantage. Performing extensive numerical simulations of systems with three and six species we show that these structured habitats destabilize spiral waves. Analyzing extinction events, we find that species extinction probabilities display a succession of maxima as function of time, that indicate a periodically enhanced probability for species extinction. Analysis of the mean extinction time reveals that as a function of the parameter governing the advantage of one of the species a transition between stable coexistence and unstable coexistence takes place. We also investigate how efficiency as a predator or a prey affects species coexistence.
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- Ryan Baker
- Academy of Integrated Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0563, USA
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- Academy of Integrated Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0563, USA; Department of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0435, USA; Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0435, USA.
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Li Q, Liu Y, Kang Z, Li K, Chen L. Improved social force model considering conflict avoidance. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2020; 30:013129. [PMID: 32013507 DOI: 10.1063/1.5132945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2019] [Accepted: 12/27/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The social force model (SFM) can be applied to characterize pedestrian dynamics in normal scenarios. However, its model of interactions among pedestrians deviates from actual scenarios to some extent. Thus, we propose an improved SFM where pedestrians consider avoiding potential conflicts in advance during the walking process. Meanwhile, the response range of potential conflicts is related to the response time and relative velocity vector. Simulation results demonstrate that the conflict avoidance force plays an important role in guiding pedestrian dynamics. Conflict avoidance makes pedestrian trajectories smoother and more realistic. Moreover, for high pedestrian density (without congestion), moderate values of response time may exist, resulting in the minimum evacuation efficiency. We hope to provide some insights into how to better model interactions among pedestrians during normal evacuation.
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- Qiaoru Li
- School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
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- School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, China
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- School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
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- School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
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Liu C, Xia T. Strategy analysis of governments and new energy product manufacturers and consumers based on evolutionary game model. Soft comput 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s00500-019-04571-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Avelino PP, de Oliveira BF, Trintin RS. Predominance of the weakest species in Lotka-Volterra and May-Leonard formulations of the rock-paper-scissors model. Phys Rev E 2019; 100:042209. [PMID: 31770947 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.100.042209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2019] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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We revisit the problem of the predominance of the "weakest" species in the context of Lotka-Volterra and May-Leonard formulations of a spatial stochastic rock-paper-scissors model in which one of the species has its predation probability reduced by 0<P_{w}<1. We show that, despite the different population dynamics and spatial patterns, these two formulations lead to qualitatively similar results for the late time values of the relative abundances of the three species (as a function of P_{w}), as long as the simulation lattices are sufficiently large for coexistence to prevail-the "weakest" species generally having an advantage over the others (specially over its predator). However, for smaller simulation lattices, we find that the relatively large oscillations at the initial stages of simulations with random initial conditions may result in a significant dependence of the probability of species survival on the lattice size.
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- P P Avelino
- Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade do Porto, CAUP, Rua das Estrelas, PT4150-762 Porto, Portugal.,Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, PT4169-007 Porto, Portugal.,School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo 5790, 87020-900 Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo 5790, 87020-900 Maringá, PR, Brazil
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LEDAS ŽILVINAS, ŠIMKUS REMIGIJUS, BARONAS ROMAS. COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF SELF-ORGANIZATION OF BACTERIAL POPULATION CONSISTING OF SUBPOPULATIONS OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE CELLS. J BIOL SYST 2019. [DOI: 10.1142/s0218339019500153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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This paper deals with the computational modeling of the bioluminescence pattern formation in suspensions of Escherichia coli bacteria. The aim was to develop a computational model for simulating the bacterial populations consisting of two subpopulations of active and passive cells. A suitable model based on Keller–Segel and Fisher equations was proposed and the spatiotemporal patterns were simulated using the finite difference technique. The influence of cell activation, deactivation, chemotactic sensitivity, growth rate and saturating signal production parameter values on the pattern formation was investigated. The proposed model can be used to effectively simulate quasi-one-dimensional spatiotemporal patterns. We provide a simple qualitative explanation of the experimental results and estimated model parameters. In particular, it is argued that the effective model simulates patterns of evaporation-driven convection in open-to-air suspensions of cells that can be either active or passive.
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- ŽILVINAS LEDAS
- Vilnius University Institute of Computer Science, Didlaukio g. 47, LT-08303 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Vilnius University Life Sciences Center Institute of Biochemistry, Saulėtekio al. 7, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Vilnius University Institute of Computer Science, Didlaukio g. 47, LT-08303 Vilnius, Lithuania
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Doekes HM, de Boer RJ, Hermsen R. Toxin production spontaneously becomes regulated by local cell density in evolving bacterial populations. PLoS Comput Biol 2019; 15:e1007333. [PMID: 31469819 PMCID: PMC6742444 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2018] [Revised: 09/12/2019] [Accepted: 08/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The production of anticompetitor toxins is widespread among bacteria. Because production of such toxins is costly, it is typically regulated. In particular, many toxins are produced only when the local cell density is high. It is unclear which selection pressures shaped the evolution of density-dependent regulation of toxin production. Here, we study the evolution of toxin production, resistance and the response to a cell-density cue in a model of an evolving bacterial population with spatial structure. We present results for two growth regimes: (i) an undisturbed, fixed habitat in which only small fluctuations of cell density occur, and (ii) a serial-transfer regime with large fluctuations in cell density. We find that density-dependent toxin production can evolve under both regimes. However, the selection pressures driving the evolution of regulation differ. In the fixed habitat, regulation evolves because it allows cells to produce toxin only when opportunities for reproduction are highly limited (because of a high local cell density), and the effective fitness costs of toxin production are hence low. Under serial transfers, regulation evolves because it allows cells to switch from a fast-growing non-toxic phenotype when colonising a new habitat, to a slower-growing competitive toxic phenotype when the cell density increases. Colonies of such regulating cells rapidly expand into unoccupied space because their edges consist of fast-growing, non-toxin-producing cells, but are also combative because cells at the interfaces with competing colonies do produce toxin. Because under the two growth regimes different types of regulation evolve, our results underscore the importance of growth conditions in the evolution of social behaviour in bacteria. Bacteria live in microbial communities, in which they compete with many other microbes for nutrients and space. In this competitive environment, almost all known bacterial strains produce toxins that impair or kill other bacteria. This chemical warfare is thought to be one of the major factors shaping microbial diversity. Many toxins are produced only if the local density of bacteria is high. To achieve this, bacteria respond to cell-density cues: signalling molecules or other indicators of the presence of other cells. Here, we use a computational model to study the evolution of density-based regulation of toxin production in bacterial populations. We show that such regulation can arise under various growth conditions, and analyse the selection pressures driving its evolution. In particular, we find that if bacteria regularly need to colonise a new habitat, density-based regulation allows them to express a fast-growing, non-toxic phenotype when expanding into uncolonised territory, and a slower-growing, toxin-producing phenotype when competing with other strains. Colonies of regulating cells show a typical structure, with cells of the fast-growing, sensitive phenotype at their expanding edges, and toxin-producing cells in the colony interior and at interfaces between colonies.
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- Hilje M. Doekes
- Theoretical Biology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Theoretical Biology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Theoretical Biology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Brown BL, Meyer-Ortmanns H, Pleimling M. Dynamically generated hierarchies in games of competition. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:062116. [PMID: 31330747 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.062116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Spatial many-species predator-prey systems have been shown to yield very rich space-time patterns. This observation begs the question whether there exist universal mechanisms for generating this type of emerging complex patterns in nonequilibrium systems. In this work we investigate the possibility of dynamically generated hierarchies in predator-prey systems. We analyze a nine-species model with competing interactions and show that the studied situation results in the spontaneous formation of spirals within spirals. The parameter dependence of these intriguing nested spirals is elucidated. This is achieved through the numerical investigation of various quantities (correlation lengths, densities of empty sites, Fourier analysis of species densities, interface fluctuations) that allows us to gain a rather complete understanding of the spatial arrangements and the temporal evolution of the system. A possible generalization of the interaction scheme yielding dynamically generated hierarchies is discussed. As cyclic interactions occur spontaneously in systems with competing strategies, the mechanism discussed in this work should contribute to our understanding of various social and biological systems.
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- Barton L Brown
- Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA.,Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA
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- Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA.,Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA.,Academy of Integrated Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0563, USA
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Park J. Emergence of oscillatory coexistence with exponentially decayed waiting times in a coupled cyclic competition system. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2019; 29:071107. [PMID: 31370425 DOI: 10.1063/1.5118833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2019] [Accepted: 07/15/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Interpatch migration between two environments is generally considered as a spatial concept and can affect species biodiversity in each patch by inducing flux of population such as inflow and outflow quantities of species. In this paper, we explore the effect of interpatch migration, which can be generally considered as a spatial concept and may affect species biodiversity between two different patches in the perspective of the macroscopic level by exploiting the coupling of two systems, where each patch is occupied by cyclically competing three species who can stably coexist by exhibiting periodic orbits. For two simple scenarios of interpatch migration either single or all species migration, we found that two systems with independently stable coexisting species in each patch are eventually synchronized, and oscillatory behaviors of species densities in two patches become identical, i.e., the synchronized coexistence emerges. In addition, we find that, whether single or all species interpatch migration occurs, the waiting time for the synchronization is exponentially decreasing as the coupling strength is intensified. Our findings suggest that the synchronized behavior of species as a result of migration between different patches can be easily predicted by the coupling of systems and additional information such as waiting times and sensitivity of initial densities.
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- Junpyo Park
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 44919, South Korea
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Avelino PP, Menezes J, de Oliveira BF, Pereira TA. Expanding spatial domains and transient scaling regimes in populations with local cyclic competition. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:052310. [PMID: 31212535 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.052310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We investigate a six-species class of May-Leonard models leading to the formation of two types of competing spatial domains, each one inhabited by three species with their own internal cyclic rock-paper-scissors dynamics. We study the resulting population dynamics using stochastic numerical simulations in two-dimensional space. We find that as three-species domains shrink, there is an increasing probability of extinction of two of the species inhabiting the domain, with the consequent creation of one-species domains. We determine the critical initial radius beyond which these one-species spatial domains are expected to expand. We further show that a transient scaling regime, with a slower average growth rate of the characteristic length scale L of the spatial domains with time t, takes place before the transition to a standard L∝t^{1/2} scaling law, resulting in an extended period of coexistence.
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- P P Avelino
- Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade do Porto, CAUP, Rua das Estrelas, PT4150-762 Porto, Portugal.,Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, PT4169-007 Porto, Portugal
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- Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade do Porto, CAUP, Rua das Estrelas, PT4150-762 Porto, Portugal.,Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Caixa Postal 1524, 59072-970 Natal, RN, Brazil.,Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo 5790, 87020-900 Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física Teórica e Experimental, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 59078-970 Natal, RN, Brazil
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Menezes J, Moura B, Pereira TA. Uneven rock-paper-scissors models: Patterns and coexistence. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019. [DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/126/18003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Park J, Jang B. Robust coexistence with alternative competition strategy in the spatial cyclic game of five species. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2019; 29:051105. [PMID: 31154778 DOI: 10.1063/1.5097003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2019] [Accepted: 04/22/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Alternative strategy is common in animal populations to promote reproductive fitness by obtaining resources. In spatial dynamics of cyclic competition, reproduction can occur when individuals obtain vacant rooms and, in this regard, empty sites should be resources for reproduction which can be induced by interspecific competition. In this paper, we study the role of alternative competition in the spatial system of cyclically competing five species by utilizing rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock game. From Monte-Carlo simulations, we found that strong alternative competition can lead to the reemergence of coexistence of five species regardless of mobility, which is never reported in previous works under the symmetric competition structure. By investigating the coexistence probability, we also found that coexistence alternates by passing certain degrees of alternative competition in combination with mobility. In addition, we provided evidences in the opposite scenario by strengthening spontaneous competition, which exhibits the reemergence of coexistence similarly. Our findings may suggest more comprehensive perspectives to interpret mechanisms for biodiversity by alternative strategies in spatially extended systems than previously reported.
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- Junpyo Park
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 44919, South Korea
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 44919, South Korea
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Bazeia D, de Oliveira BF, Szolnoki A. Invasion-controlled pattern formation in a generalized multispecies predator-prey system. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:052408. [PMID: 31212473 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.052408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Rock-scissors-paper game, as the simplest model of intransitive relation between competing agents, is a frequently quoted model to explain the stable diversity of competitors in the race of surviving. When increasing the number of competitors we may face a novel situation because beside the mentioned unidirectional predator-prey-like dominance a balanced or peer relation can emerge between some competitors. By utilizing this possibility in the present work we generalize a four-state predator-prey-type model where we establish two groups of species labeled by even and odd numbers. In particular, we introduce different invasion probabilities between and within these groups, which results in a tunable intensity of bidirectional invasion among peer species. Our study reveals an exceptional richness of pattern formations where five quantitatively different phases are observed by varying solely the strength of the mentioned inner invasion. The related transition points can be identified with the help of appropriate order parameters based on the spatial autocorrelation decay, on the fraction of empty sites, and on the variance of the species density. Furthermore, the application of diverse, alliance-specific inner invasion rates for different groups may result in the extinction of the pair of species where this inner invasion is moderate. These observations highlight that beyond the well-known and intensively studied cyclic dominance there is an additional source of complexity of pattern formation that has not been explored earlier.
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- D Bazeia
- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 58051-970 João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, 87020-900 Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Centre for Energy Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
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Mugnaine M, Andrade FM, Szezech JD, Bazeia D. Basin entropy behavior in a cyclic model of the rock-paper-scissors type. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019. [DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/125/58003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Park J. Nonlinear dynamics with Hopf bifurcations by targeted mutation in the system of rock-paper-scissors metaphor. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2019; 29:033102. [PMID: 30927841 DOI: 10.1063/1.5081966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2018] [Accepted: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The role of mutation, which is an error process in gene evolution, in systems of cyclically competing species has been studied from various perspectives, and it is regarded as one of the key factors for promoting coexistence of all species. In addition to naturally occurring mutations, many experiments in genetic engineering have involved targeted mutation techniques such as recombination between DNA and somatic cell sequences and have studied genetic modifications through loss or augmentation of cell functions. In this paper, we investigate nonlinear dynamics with targeted mutation in cyclically competing species. In different ways to classic approaches of mutation in cyclic games, we assume that mutation may occur in targeted individuals who have been removed from intraspecific competition. By investigating each scenario depending on the number of objects for targeted mutation analytically and numerically, we found that targeted mutation can lead to persistent coexistence of all species. In addition, under the specific condition of targeted mutation, we found that targeted mutation can lead to emergences of bistable states for species survival. Through the linear stability analysis of rate equations, we found that those phenomena are accompanied by Hopf bifurcation which is supercritical. Our findings may provide more global perspectives on understanding underlying mechanisms to control biodiversity in ecological/biological sciences, and evidences with mathematical foundations to resolve social dilemmas such as a turnover of group members by resigning with intragroup conflicts in social sciences.
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- Junpyo Park
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 44919, South Korea
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Correia AD, Stoof HTC. Nash Equilibria in the Response Strategy of Correlated Games. Sci Rep 2019; 9:2352. [PMID: 30787306 PMCID: PMC6382789 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-36562-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2018] [Accepted: 11/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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In nature and society, problems that arise when different interests are difficult to reconcile are modeled in game theory. While most applications assume that the players make decisions based only on the payoff matrix, a more detailed modeling is necessary if we also want to consider the influence of correlations on the decisions of the players. We therefore extend here the existing framework of correlated strategies by giving the players the freedom to respond to the instructions of the correlation device by probabilistically following or not following its suggestions. This creates a new type of games that we call “correlated games”. The associated response strategies that can solve these games turn out to have a rich structure of Nash equilibria that goes beyond the correlated equilibrium and pure or mixed-strategy solutions and also gives better payoffs in certain cases. We here determine these Nash equilibria for all possible correlated Snowdrift games and we find these solutions to be describable by Ising models in thermal equilibrium. We believe that our approach paves the way to a study of correlations in games that uncovers the existence of interesting underlying interaction mechanisms, without compromising the independence of the players.
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- A D Correia
- Institute for Theoretical Physics and Center for Complex Systems Studies, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics and Center for Complex Systems Studies, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Gross J, De Dreu CKW. The rise and fall of cooperation through reputation and group polarization. Nat Commun 2019; 10:776. [PMID: 30770812 PMCID: PMC6377668 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08727-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2017] [Accepted: 01/28/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Humans exhibit a remarkable capacity for cooperation among genetically unrelated individuals. Yet, human cooperation is neither universal, nor stable. Instead, cooperation is often bounded to members of particular groups, and such groups endogenously form or break apart. Cooperation networks are parochial and under constant reconfiguration. Here, we demonstrate how parochial cooperation networks endogenously emerge as a consequence of simple reputation heuristics people may use when deciding to cooperate or defect. These reputation heuristics, such as "a friend of a friend is a friend" and "the enemy of a friend is an enemy" further lead to the dynamic formation and fission of cooperative groups, accompanied by a dynamic rise and fall of cooperation among agents. The ability of humans to safeguard kin-independent cooperation through gossip and reputation may be, accordingly, closely interlinked with the formation of group-bounded cooperation networks that are under constant reconfiguration, ultimately preventing global and stable cooperation.
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- Jörg Gross
- Department of Psychology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Psychology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making (CREED), University of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 1551, 1001 NB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Bassler KE, Frey E, Zia RKP. Coevolution of nodes and links: Diversity-driven coexistence in cyclic competition of three species. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:022309. [PMID: 30934283 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.022309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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When three species compete cyclically in a well-mixed, stochastic system of N individuals, extinction is known to typically occur at times scaling as the system size N. This happens, for example, in rock-paper-scissors games or conserved Lotka-Volterra models in which every pair of individuals can interact on a complete graph. Here we show that if the competing individuals also have a "social temperament" to be either introverted or extroverted, leading them to cut or add links, respectively, then long-living states in which all species coexist can occur. These nonequilibrium quasisteady states only occur when both introverts and extroverts are present, thus showing that diversity can lead to stability in complex systems. In this case, it enables a subtle balance between species competition and network dynamics to be maintained.
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- Kevin E Bassler
- Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-5005, USA; Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-5002, USA; and Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, Dresden D-01187, Germany
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- Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for Nanoscience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 37, 80333 München, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, Dresden D-01187, Germany and Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Department of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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Nagatani T, Ichinose G, Tainaka KI. Metapopulation dynamics in the rock-paper-scissors game with mutation: Effects of time-varying migration paths. J Theor Biol 2019; 462:425-431. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.11.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2018] [Revised: 11/24/2018] [Accepted: 11/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Bazeia D, de Oliveira BF, Szolnoki A. Phase transitions in dependence of apex predator decaying ratio in a cyclic dominant system. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/124/68001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Bauer M, Frey E. Delays in Fitness Adjustment Can Lead to Coexistence of Hierarchically Interacting Species. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 121:268101. [PMID: 30636138 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.268101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2018] [Revised: 08/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Organisms that exploit different environments may experience a stochastic delay in adjusting their fitness when they switch habitats. We study two such organisms whose fitness is determined by the species composition of the local environment, as they interact through a public good. We show that a delay in the fitness adjustment can lead to the coexistence of the two species in a metapopulation, although the faster-growing species always wins in well-mixed competition experiments. Coexistence is favored over wide parameter ranges and is independent of spatial clustering. It arises when species are heterogeneous in their fitness and can keep each other balanced.
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- Marianne Bauer
- Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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- Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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Metapopulation model of rock-scissors-paper game with subpopulation-specific victory rates stabilized by heterogeneity. J Theor Biol 2018; 458:103-110. [PMID: 30213665 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2018] [Revised: 09/07/2018] [Accepted: 09/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Recently, metapopulation models for rock-paper-scissors games have been presented. Each subpopulation is represented by a node on a graph. An individual is either rock (R), scissors (S) or paper (P); it randomly migrates among subpopulations. In the present paper, we assume victory rates differ in different subpopulations. To investigate the dynamic state of each subpopulation (node), we numerically obtain the solutions of reaction-diffusion equations on the graphs with two and three nodes. In the case of homogeneous victory rates, we find each subpopulation has a periodic solution with neutral stability. However, when victory rates between subpopulations are heterogeneous, the solution approaches stable focuses. The heterogeneity of victory rates promotes the coexistence of species.
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Hilbe C, Schmid L, Tkadlec J, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. Indirect reciprocity with private, noisy, and incomplete information. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:12241-12246. [PMID: 30429320 PMCID: PMC6275544 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1810565115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Indirect reciprocity is a mechanism for cooperation based on shared moral systems and individual reputations. It assumes that members of a community routinely observe and assess each other and that they use this information to decide who is good or bad, and who deserves cooperation. When information is transmitted publicly, such that all community members agree on each other's reputation, previous research has highlighted eight crucial moral systems. These "leading-eight" strategies can maintain cooperation and resist invasion by defectors. However, in real populations individuals often hold their own private views of others. Once two individuals disagree about their opinion of some third party, they may also see its subsequent actions in a different light. Their opinions may further diverge over time. Herein, we explore indirect reciprocity when information transmission is private and noisy. We find that in the presence of perception errors, most leading-eight strategies cease to be stable. Even if a leading-eight strategy evolves, cooperation rates may drop considerably when errors are common. Our research highlights the role of reliable information and synchronized reputations to maintain stable moral systems.
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- Christian Hilbe
- Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria;
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- Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
- Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Park J, Do Y, Jang B. Multistability in the cyclic competition system. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2018; 28:113110. [PMID: 30501221 DOI: 10.1063/1.5045366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2018] [Accepted: 10/11/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Cyclically competition models have been successful to gain an insight of biodiversity mechanism in ecosystems. There are, however, still limitations to elucidate complex phenomena arising in real competition. In this paper, we report that a multistability occurs in a simple rock-paper-scissor cyclically competition model by assuming that intraspecific competition depends on the logistic growth of each species density. This complex stability is absent in any cyclically competition model, and we investigate how the proposed intraspecific competition affects biodiversity in the existing society of three species through macroscopic and microscopic approaches. When the system is multistable, we show basins of the asymptotically stable heteroclinic cycle and stable attractors to demonstrate how the survival state is determined by initial densities of three species. Also, we find that the multistability is associated with a subcritical Hopf bifurcation. This surprising finding will give an opportunity to interpret rich dynamical phenomena in ecosystems which may occur in cyclic competition systems with different types of interactions.
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- Junpyo Park
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mathematics, KNU-Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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Farahpour F, Saeedghalati M, Brauer VS, Hoffmann D. Trade-off shapes diversity in eco-evolutionary dynamics. eLife 2018; 7:e36273. [PMID: 30117415 PMCID: PMC6126925 DOI: 10.7554/elife.36273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2018] [Accepted: 08/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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We introduce an Interaction- and Trade-off-based Eco-Evolutionary Model (ITEEM), in which species are competing in a well-mixed system, and their evolution in interaction trait space is subject to a life-history trade-off between replication rate and competitive ability. We demonstrate that the shape of the trade-off has a fundamental impact on eco-evolutionary dynamics, as it imposes four phases of diversity, including a sharp phase transition. Despite its minimalism, ITEEM produces a remarkable range of patterns of eco-evolutionary dynamics that are observed in experimental and natural systems. Most notably we find self-organization towards structured communities with high and sustained diversity, in which competing species form interaction cycles similar to rock-paper-scissors games.
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- Farnoush Farahpour
- Bioinformatics and Computational BiophysicsUniversity of Duisburg-EssenEssenGermany
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- Bioinformatics and Computational BiophysicsUniversity of Duisburg-EssenEssenGermany
- Center for Computational Sciences and SimulationUniversity of Duisburg-EssenEssenGermany
- Center for Medical BiotechnologyUniversity of Duisburg-EssenEssenGermany
- Center for Water and Environmental ResearchUniversity of Duisburg-EssenEssenGermany
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Metapopulation model for rock-paper-scissors game: Mutation affects paradoxical impacts. J Theor Biol 2018; 450:22-29. [PMID: 29627264 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2018] [Revised: 04/01/2018] [Accepted: 04/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The rock-paper-scissors (RPS) game is known as one of the simplest cyclic dominance models. This game is key to understanding biodiversity. Three species, rock (R), paper (P) and scissors (S), can coexist in nature. In the present paper, we first present a metapopulation model for RPS game with mutation. Only mutation from R to S is allowed. The total population consists of spatially separated patches, and the mutation occurs in particular patches. We present reaction-diffusion equations which have two terms: reaction and migration terms. The former represents the RPS game with mutation, while the latter corresponds to random walk. The basic equations are solved analytically and numerically. It is found that the mutation induces one of three phases: the stable coexistence of three species, the stable phase of two species, and a single-species phase. The phase transitions among three phases occur by varying the mutation rate. We find the conditions for coexistence are largely changed depending on metapopulation models. We also find that the mutation induces different paradoxes in different patches.
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