Modeling CRISPR gene drives for suppression of invasive rodents using a supervised machine learning framework
Fig 2
Population dynamics without gene drive release.
Left panel: Population size fluctuations over time are shown after the population is initialized at the approximated capacity of 4000. The average population size was 4257 individuals. Center panel: The average frequency of each age, as determined by tabulating the ages of each individual between time step 100 and 500 of the simulation. Right panel: Ripley’s L at length scales from 0 to 200 meters. This plot shows the difference between Ripley’s L statistic in the simulation and the expected value of a random distribution. Negative values indicate that a population is more dispersed than a randomly distributed population. Density dependent competition takes place at a maximum distance of 75 meters and is more intense between close-together individuals, resulting in a slightly dispersed population.