On the Origin of DNA Genomes: Evolution of the Division of Labor between Template and Catalyst in Model Replicator Systems
Figure 4
The evolutionary dynamics of the transcription system after the self-replication system was removed.
After the surface model reached evolutionary equilibrium (Figure 2D), the whole population of the RNA replicase (i.e. the self-replication system) was removed from the system (Figure 4A), and the simulation was continued. The resulting evolutionary dynamics are depicted (Figure 4B–F). The figure has the same format as that of Figure 2. See the main text for the explanation of each panel. The parameters where as follows: ; the size of CA was 512×512 squares; the other parameters were the same as in Figure 2.