Relationship of reproduction and evolutionary computation to analytical modeling of the ecological genetics of inducible defenses

Authors:
Gloria Childress Townsend;Wade N. Hazel;Benjamin Steffen
Affiliations:
DePauw University Greencastle, IN;DePauw University Greencastle, IN;University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Year:
2012

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Abstract

The authors cite a theoretical model developed by biologists, the phenotypic model, in order to understand the evolution of inducible defenses. Induced defense in the acorn barnacle against attack by a predatory snail provides a context to anchor the descriptions of the model. The authors describe a computer simulation for the evolution of induced defense in barnacles, adding additional detail to the model's parameters in order to achieve a more biologically realistic simulation. Four more simulations are described, which combine evolutionary computation algorithms with new reproduction methods suggested by natural observations of snails and barnacles. The results of the five simulations are compared with the mathematical model and with each other.