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Red Queen Dynamics, Competition and Critical Points in a Model of RNA Virus Quasispecies

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  • Ricard V. Sole
  • Ramon Ferrer
  • Isabel Gonzalez-Garcia
  • Josep Quer
  • Esteban Domingo

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Recent experiments involving competition of clonal populations of RNA viruses have shown that competition among virus strains of approximately equal relative fitness can result in the eventual competitive exclusion of one of the species. As competition proceeds in time, both the winers and the losers exhibited absolute gains in fitness, consistent with the "Red Queen" hypothesis of evolution. Further experiments involving closely related evolving quasispecies revealed a highly predictable nonlinear behavior suggesting a deteerministic component in the underlying quasispecies dynamics. In this paper we present a simple model of RNA virus populations which allows previous hypothesis to be tested and provides an interpretation for the observed experimental results.

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  • Ricard V. Sole & Ramon Ferrer & Isabel Gonzalez-Garcia & Josep Quer & Esteban Domingo, 1997. "Red Queen Dynamics, Competition and Critical Points in a Model of RNA Virus Quasispecies," Working Papers 97-11-085, Santa Fe Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:wop:safiwp:97-11-085
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    1. Sheri M. Markose, 2005. "Computability and Evolutionary Complexity: Markets as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 115(504), pages 159-192, 06.
    2. Markose, Sheri M, 2004. "Novelty And Surprises In Complex Adaptive System (CAS) Dynamics: A Computational Theory of Actor Innovation," Economics Discussion Papers 3731, University of Essex, Department of Economics.

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