Differences in Cell Division Rates Drive the Evolution of Terminal Differentiation in Microbes
Figure 3
Examples of the evolution of the population trait averages.
Evolution of trait averages (,
,
,
) of 400 cells over 5000 generations under different conditions of relative division rate
, filament topology, and differentiation costs
. (A,B) simulations of the broken chain topology differing only in the relative division rates
and
, respectively. (B,D) simulations of the connected topology differing only in the differentiation cost
and
, respectively. All simulations shown here have interaction range set to
.