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Evolutionary dynamics of competing phenotype-structured populations in periodically fluctuating environments.
Journal of mathematical biology - 1 Feb 2020
Ardaševa Aleksandra, Gatenby Robert A, Anderson Alexander R A, Byrne Helen M, Maini Philip K, Lorenzi Tommaso
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Living species, ranging from bacteria to animals, exist in environmental conditions that exhibit spatial and temporal heterogeneity which requires them to adapt. Risk-spreading through spontaneous phenotypic variations is a known concept in ecology, which is used to explain how species may survive when faced with the evolutionary risks associated with temporally varying environments. In order to support a deeper...
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