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Diffusion dynamics on the coexistence subspace in a stochastic evolutionary game

Author(s): Popovic L; Peuckert L;

Frequency-dependent selection reflects the interaction between different species as they battle for limited resources in their environment. In a stochastic evolutionary game the species relative fitnesses guides the evolutionary dynamics with fluctuations d...

Article GUID: 32025789

Topology and inference for Yule trees with multiple states.

Author(s): Popovic L, Rivas M

J Math Biol. 2016 11;73(5):1251-1291 Authors: Popovic L, Rivas M

Article GUID: 27009067


Title:Diffusion dynamics on the coexistence subspace in a stochastic evolutionary game
Authors:Popovic LPeuckert L
Link:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32025789/
DOI:10.1007/s00285-020-01476-z
Category:J Math Biol
PMID:32025789
Dept Affiliation: MATHSTATS
1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada. lpopovic@mathstat.concordia.ca.
2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada.

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Frequency-dependent selection reflects the interaction between different species as they battle for limited resources in their environment. In a stochastic evolutionary game the species relative fitnesses guides the evolutionary dynamics with fluctuations due to random drift. A selection advantage which depends on a changing environment will introduce additional possibilities for the dynamics. We analyse a simple model in which a random environment allows competing species to coexist for a long time before a fixation of a single species happens. In our analysis we use stability in a linear combination of competing species to approximate the stochastic dynamics of the system by a diffusion on a one dimensional co-existence region. Our method significantly simplifies approximating the probability of first extinction and its expected time, and demonstrates a rigorous model reduction technique for evaluating quasistationary properties of stochastic evolutionary dynamics.