ArticleNature communications2018
Asymmetric migration decreases stability but increases resilience in a heterogeneous metapopulation.
Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Linking spatial drug heterogeneity to microbial growth dynamics in theory and experiment.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Deciphering and steering population-level response under spatial drug heterogeneity on microhabitat structures.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Spatial structure facilitates evolutionary rescue by drug resistance.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Linking spatial drug heterogeneity to microbial growth dynamics in theory and experiment.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Experimental evidence that network topology can accelerate the spread of beneficial mutations.Evolution letters · 2023Article
- Effect of congestion avoidance due to congestion information provision on optimizing agent dynamics on an endogenous star network topology.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Integrating Systems and Synthetic Biology to Understand and Engineer Microbiomes.Annual review of biomedical engineering · 2021Review
- Migration alters oscillatory dynamics and promotes survival in connected bacterial populations.Nature communications · 2018Article
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Abstract
Many natural populations are spatially distributed, forming a network of subpopulations linked by migration. Migration patterns are often asymmetric and heterogeneous, with important consequences on the ecology and evolution of the species. Here we investigate experimentally how asymmetric migration and heterogeneous structure affect a simple metapopulation of budding yeast, formed by one strain that produces a public good and a non-producer strain that benefits from it. We study metapopulations with star topology and asymmetric migration, finding that all their subpopulations have a higher fraction of producers than isolated populations. Furthermore, the metapopulations have lower tolerance to challenging environments but higher resilience to transient perturbations. This apparent paradox occurs because tolerance to a constant challenge depends on the weakest subpopulations of the network, while resilience to a transient perturbation depends on the strongest ones.
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