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PHYSICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/9/6/066002
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- EPSRC [EP/H02171X/1]
- EPSRC [EP/H02171X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/H02171X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We introduce and analyse an individual-based evolutionary model, in which a population of genetically diverse organisms compete with each other for limited resources. Through theoretical analysis and stochastic simulations, we show that the model exhibits a pattern-forming instability which is highly amplified by the effects of demographic noise, leading to the spontaneous formation of genotypic clusters. This mechanism supports the thesis that stochasticity has a central role in the formation and coherence of species.
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