ArticleJournal of mathematical biology2021
A branching process model for dormancy and seed banks in randomly fluctuating environments.
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- Phenotypic plasticity trade-offs in an age-structured model of bacterial growth under stress.Journal of mathematical biology · 2026Article
- Emergence of microbial host dormancy during a persistent virus epidemic.Journal of mathematical biology · 2026Article
- Dormancy in the origin, evolution and persistence of life on Earth.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Assessing the extinction risk of the spontaneous flora in urban tree bases.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Principles of seed banks and the emergence of complexity from dormancy.Nature communications · 2021Review
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Abstract
The goal of this article is to contribute towards the conceptual and quantitative understanding of the evolutionary benefits for (microbial) populations to maintain a seed bank consisting of dormant individuals when facing fluctuating environmental conditions. To this end, we discuss a class of '2-type' branching processes describing populations of individuals that may switch between 'active' and 'dormant' states in a random environment oscillating between a 'healthy' and a 'harsh' state. We incorporate different switching strategies and suggest a method of 'fair comparison' to incorporate potentially varying reproductive costs. We then use this concept to compare the fitness of the different strategies in terms of maximal Lyapunov exponents. This gives rise to a 'fitness map' depicting the environmental regimes where certain switching strategies are uniquely supercritical.
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