BACTERIAL EVOLUTION AND THE BAK–SNEPPEN MODEL

Indrani Bose () and Indranath Chaudhuri
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Indrani Bose: Department of Physics, Bose Institute, 93/1, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Calcutta-700 009, India
Indranath Chaudhuri: Department of Physics, St. Xavier's College, 30, Park Street, Calcutta-700016, India

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2001, vol. 12, issue 05, 675-683

Abstract: Recently, Lenskiet al.1–3have carried out several experiments on bacterial evolution. Their findings support the theory of punctuated equilibrium in biological evolution. They have further quantified the relative contributions of adaptation, chance and history to bacterial evolution. In this paper, we show that a modifiedM-trait Bak–Sneppen model can explain many of the experimental results in a qualitative manner.

Keywords: Bacterial Evolution; Punctuated Equilibrium; Bak–Sneppen Model; Mutations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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