Computer simulations for biological aging and sexual reproduction

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências

Dietrich Stauffer²  Paulo M.c. De Oliveira¹  Suzana Moss De Oliveira¹  Thadeu J.p. Penna¹  Jorge S. SÁ Martins¹ 

[1] ,Cologne University Institute for Theoretical Physics ,Germany

关键词: parthenogenesis;    genome;    menopause;    testosterone;    Monte Carlo simulation;    partenogênese;    genoma;    menopausa;    testosterona;    simulação Monte Carlo;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0001-37652001000100003

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The sexual version of the Penna model of biological aging, simulated since 1996, is compared here with alternative forms of reproduction as well as with models not involving aging. In particular we want to check how sexual forms of life could have evolved and won over earlier asexual forms hundreds of million years ago. This computer model is based on the mutation-accumulation theory of aging, using bits-strings to represent the genome. Its population dynamics is studied by Monte Carlo methods.

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