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Title: | Modelling Functional Shifts in Two-Species Hypercycles |
Author: | Bassols Cornudella, Bernat Fontich, Ernest, 1955- Oro, Daniel Alonso Giménez, David Sardanyés Cayuela, Josep |
Keywords: | Sistemes dinàmics diferenciables Macromolècules Origen de la vida Differentiable dynamical systems Macromolecules Origin of life |
Issue Date: | 30-Jul-2021 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Abstract: | Research on hypercycles focuses on cooperative interactions among replicating species, including the emergence of catalytic parasites and catalytic shortcircuits. Further interactions may be expected to arise in cooperative systems. For instance, molecular replicators are subject to mutational processes and ecological species to behavioural shifts due to environmental and ecological changes. Such changes could involve switches from cooperative to antagonistic interactions, in what we call a functional shift. In this article, we investigate a model for a two-member hypercycle model, considering that one species performs a functional shift. First, we introduce the model dynamics without functional shifts to illustrate the dynamics only considering obligate and facultative cooperation. Then, two more cases maintaining cross-catalysis are considered: (i) a model describing the dynamics of ribozymes where a fraction of the population of one replicator degrades the other molecular species while the other fraction still receives catalytic aid; and (ii) a system in which a given fraction of the population predates on the cooperating species while the rest of the population still receives aid. We have characterized the key bifurcation parameters determining extinction, survival, and coexistence of species. We show that predation, regardless of the fraction that benefits from it, does not significantly change dynamics with respect to the degradative case (i), thus conserving dynamics and bifurcations. Their biological significance is interpreted, and their potential implications for the dynamics of early replicators and ecological species are outlined. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3390/math9151809 |
It is part of: | Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, num. 15, p. 1-22 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/183480 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.3390/math9151809 |
ISSN: | 2227-7390 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Matemàtiques i Informàtica) |
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