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The Advantage of Arriving First: Characteristic Times in Finite Size Populations of Error-Prone Replicators
Figure 4
Values of the characteristic time for the reduced r-model for mutation rates in the range 
at constant steps 
.
In the main figure the amplification factor 
of the fittest phenotype is: 5 (blue curve), 10, (green), 20 (red) and 30 (cyan). In the inset, 
takes the values: 
(blue curve), 
(green curve) and 
(red curve). In all cases, 
and 
. The points in the curves of the main picture correspond to the values mutation rate (from left to right), 
. These values are applied later in stochastic simulations. As expected, increasing the value of the highest peak in the sequence landscape, 
, reduces the characteristic time. Furthermore, as depicted in the inset, as 
approaches 
the curves tend to become monotonous and move up several order of magnitude.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083142.g004