Eco-Evolutionary Feedback and the Tuning of Proto-Developmental Life Cycles
Figure 4
The effect of the maladapted type’s growth on the optimal transition probability.
(A) Two organisms compete (
) with different transition probabilities,
, when
types grow at the same rate as
types– when the cost of maladapted type (
) is minimal. Without a penalty for producing
types the organism with the higher
always wins. (B)
types grow 1% slower than S types (
). The optimal transition probability decreases and the top black area of the transition probability competition graph increases. (C) The optimal
is shown as a function of the growth discrepancy between S and W types for three different values of N. The optimal transition probability when W types grow by a factor of 1.5 times slower than S types is approximately the same as when the W types do not reproduce at all.