Extended Discrete-Time Population Model to Describe the Competition of Nutrient-Producing Protocells.

ABSTRACT: Modeling the behavior of simple communities of protocells (as basic life-like organisms) is of vital importance since their better understanding may help to describe more complex (artificial and real) ecological systems. In this paper, we extend a recently developed discrete-time dynamic population model (called preliminary model) to a more general, completely reformulated version for describing the competition in a community of three protocell species (one generalist and two specialists). The advantage for the generalist is that it produces more kinds of nutrients than the specialists. In contrast to the preliminary model, the reproduction times and the times of (first) appearance of the three species can be all different in the extended model. The aim is to achieve the most basic/fundame

SUBMITTER: Kicsiny R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12274253 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature