Red Queen strange attractors in host–parasite replicator gene-for-gene coevolution

Josep Sardanyés and Ricard V. Solé

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2007, vol. 32, issue 5, 1666-1678

Abstract: We study a continuous time model describing gene-for-gene, host–parasite interactions among self-replicating macromolecules evolving in both neutral and rugged fitness landscapes. Our model considers polymorphic genotypic populations of sequences with 3 bits undergoing mutation and incorporating a “type II” non-linear functional response in the host–parasite interaction. We show, for both fitness landscapes, a wide range of chaotic coevolutionary dynamics governed by Red Queen strange attractors. The analysis of a rugged fitness landscape for parasite sequences reveals that fittest genotypes achieve lower stationary concentration values, as opposed to the flattest ones, which undergo a higher stationary concentration. Our model also shows that the increase of parasites pressure (higher self-replication and mutation rates) generically involves a simplification of the host–parasite dynamical behavior, involving the transition from a chaotic to an ordered coevolutionary phase. Moreover, the same transition can also be found when hosts “run” faster through the hypercube. Our results, in agreement with previous studies in host–parasite coevolution, suggest that chaos might be common in coevolutionary dynamics of changing self-replicating entities undergoing a host–parasite ecology.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2006.08.031

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