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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 8: Networks - From Topology to Dynamics Part I (joint session SOE/ DY / BP)

DY 8.1: Talk

Monday, March 16, 2015, 12:15–12:30, MA 001

How mutational networks shape evolutionary processes — •Henning Siemen, Benjamin Maier, and Dirk Brockmann — Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin

Dynamic processes on complex networks have attracted a lot of attention in the past. The majority of the studies focus on understanding how topological network features shape dynamics. Several interesting results have been obtained in the context of epidemics and contagion phenomena recently, for instance the absence of epidemic thresholds in scale free networks, or the context of synchronization phenomena where certain network topologies can sustain chimera states. However, evolutionary processes on networks received comparatively little attention. It is largely unresolved how network topologies influence mutation and selection dynamics. Here, we investigate a network system of genetic strains in which each node represents a strain and links represent possible mutational pathways. We compare generic network topologies ranging from ordinary lattices and Erdos-Renyi networks to small world and scale free networks. We find that network topologies can have a substantial impact on equilibrium strain distributions. We show that locally clustered networks such as small world and lattice topologies tend to generate local maxima composed of communities with high fitness. Furthermore, we find that scale free topologies as opposed to ER networks are more likely to exhibit a lower error threshold.