On the exclusion of exponential autocatalysts by sub-exponential autocatalysts.

Autocatalysis Exponential growth Prebiotic evolution Resource competition Sub-exponential growth

Journal

Journal of theoretical biology

ISSN: 1095-8541

Titre abrégé: J Theor Biol

Pays: England

ID NLM: 0376342

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
19 Dec 2023

Historique:

received: 03 10 2023

revised: 14 12 2023

accepted: 15 12 2023

medline: 22 12 2023

pubmed: 22 12 2023

entrez: 21 12 2023

Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Selection among autocatalytic species fundamentally depends on their growth law: exponential species, whose number of copies grows exponentially, are mutually exclusive, while sub-exponential ones, whose number of copies grows polynomially, can coexist. Here we consider competitions between autocatalytic species with different growth laws and make the simple yet counterintuitive observation that sub-exponential species can exclude exponential ones while the reverse is, in principle, impossible. This observation has implications for scenarios pertaining to the emergence of natural selection.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2023.111714 PMID: 38128753

pubmed: 38128753

pii: S0022-5193(23)00311-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2023.111714

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doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

Pagination

111714

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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.