Evolution of cooperation in an epithelium.

ABSTRACT: Cooperation is prevalent in nature, not only in the context of social interactions within the animal kingdom but also on the cellular level. In cancer, for example, tumour cells can cooperate by producing growth factors. The evolution of cooperation has traditionally been studied for well-mixed populations under the framework of evolutionary game theory, and more recently for structured populations using evolutionary graph theory (EGT). The population structures arising due to cellular arrangement in tissues, however, are dynamic and thus cannot be accurately represented by either of these frameworks. In this work, we compare the conditions for cooperative success in an epithelium modelled using EGT, to those in a mechanical model of an epithelium-the Voronoi tessellation (VT) model. Cruci

SUBMITTER: Renton J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6451401 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature