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Environmental spatial and temporal variability and its role in non-favoured mutant dynamics.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how environmental variability (or randomness) affects evolution is of fundamental importance for biology. The presence of temporal or spatial variability significantly affects the competition dynamics in populations, and gives rise to some counterintuitive observations. In this paper, we consider both birth-death (BD) or death-birth (DB) Moran processes, which are set up on a circular or a complete graph. We investigate spatial and temporal variability affecting division and/or death parameters. Assuming that mutant and wild-type fitness parameters are drawn from an identical distribution, we study mutant fixation probability and timing. We demonstrate that temporal and spatial types of variability possess fundamentally different properties. Under temporal randomness, in a completely mixed system, minority mutants experience (i) higher than neutral fixation probability and a higher mean conditional fixation time, if the division rates are affected by randomness and (ii) lower fixation probability and lower mean conditional fixation time if the death rates are affected. Once spatial restrictions are imposed, however, these effects completely disappear, and mutants in a circular graph experience neutral dynamics, but only for the DB update rule in case (i) and for the BD rule in case (ii) above. In contrast to this, in the case of spatially variable environment, both for BD/DB processes, both for complete/circular graph and both for division/death rates affected, minority mutants experience a higher than neutral probability of fixation. Fixation time, however, is increased by randomness on a circle, while it decreases for complete graphs under random division rates. A basic difference between temporal and spatial kinds of variability is the types of correlations that occur in the system. Under temporal randomness, mutants are spatially correlated with each other (they simply have equal fitness values at a given moment of time; the same holds for wild-types). Under spatial randomness, there are subtler, temporal correlations among mutant and wild-type cells, which manifest themselves by cells of each type 'claiming' better spots for themselves. Applications of this theory include cancer generation and biofilm dynamics.

SUBMITTER: Farhang-Sardroodi S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731496 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Environmental spatial and temporal variability and its role in non-favoured mutant dynamics.

Farhang-Sardroodi Suzan S Darooneh Amir H AH Kohandel Mohammad M Komarova Natalia L NL

Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20190814 157

Understanding how environmental variability (or randomness) affects evolution is of fundamental importance for biology. The presence of temporal or spatial variability significantly affects the competition dynamics in populations, and gives rise to some counterintuitive observations. In this paper, we consider both birth-death (BD) or death-birth (DB) Moran processes, which are set up on a circular or a complete graph. We investigate spatial and temporal variability affecting division and/or dea ...[more]

PMID: 31409235

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