2.
The deterministic model of microevolutionary dynamics of “phagebacteria” ecosystem is analyzed. Primary (and after all decisive) events that determine the dynamics are direct interactions between bacterial reception and viral adsorption proteins. Structure of the model is that under real parameters of adsorption, lysis and reproduction each separate (
ith) stage of microevolution comes to end with total lysis of
ith population of bacteria by
ith population of phage. It is shown however that in the course of joint microevolution both populations pass over some critical sizes when a new pair of antagonistic strains arises with certainty from mutations. As a result it is easy to visualize and simulate by computer the process of successive fixations of such pairs of mutants. This coevolution is the original example of a
locally adaptive but globally undirected process which is characterized also by: (1) constant average rate, (2) neutrality of mutations at the moment of their emergence and during the period of “anticipation” of ecological changes, (3) pure adaptivity of the same mutations at the moment of proper fixation and (4) “intrinsic origin” (from the ecosystem dynamics itself) of selective constraints.
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