The Advantage of Arriving First: Characteristic Times in Finite Size Populations of Error-Prone Replicators
Figure 7
Percentage of fixation of lineage as a function of the population size in the competition against the other lineage
for different values of the mutation rate of the sequences that form
and for different values of the amplification factor
: (A)
; (B)
; (C)
and (D)
.
In all cases, the values of the other amplification factors are and
and the mutation rate of
is
. As before, the initial population is divided equally into genotypes
of both lineages. The values of
used are: 0.1 (blue lines), 0.075 (green lines), 0.05 (red lines) and 0.025 (cyan lines). The population sizes simulated are:
,
,
,
,
and
. For low populations sizes
runs were carried out for each experimental setup, whereas for
two hundred runs were enough to have negligible statistical errors.