PMID: 11308878Apr 20, 2001Paper

Evolution in a spatially structured population subject to rare epidemics

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
J E SocolarW G Wilson

Abstract

We study a model that gives rise to spatially inhomogeneous population densities in a system of host individuals subject to rare, randomly distributed disease events. For stationary hosts that disperse offspring over short distances, evolutionary dynamics can lead to persistent populations with a variety of spatial structures. A mean-field analysis is shown to account for the behavior observed in simulations of a one-dimensional system, where the evolutionarily stable state corresponds to the solution of a straightforward optimization problem. In two dimensions, evolution drives the system to a stable critical state that is less well understood.

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