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An Unusual Antagonistic Pleiotropy in the Penna Model for Biological Ageing
We combine the Penna Model for biological aging, which is based on the
mutation-accumulation theory, with a sort of antagonistic pleiotropy. We show
that depending on how the pleiotropy is introduced, it is possible to reproduce
both the humans mortality, which increases exponentially with age, and fruitfly
mortality, which decelerates at old ages, allowing the appearance of
arbitrarily old Methuselah's.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Physica
The Penna Model of Biological Aging
This review deals with computer simulation of biological ageing, particularly
with the Penna model of 1995.Comment: 16-page invited review submitted to Bioinformatics and Biology
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Positive mutations and mutation-dependent Verhulst factor in Penna ageing model
We twice modify the Penna model for biological ageing. First we introduce
back (good) mutations and a memory for them into the model. It allows us to
observe an improvement of the species fitness over long time scales as well as
punctuated equilibrium. Second we adopt a food/space competition factor that
depends on the number of accumulated mutations in the individuals genomes, and
get rid of the fixed limiting number of allowed mutations. Besides reproducing
the main results of the standard model, we also observe a mortality maximum for
the oldest old.Comment: 9 pages, including 3 figures, to be submitted to Physica
Monte Carlo Simulation of Age-Dependent Host-Parasite Relations
The death of a biological population is an extreme event which we investigate
here for a host-parasitoid system. Our simulations using the Penna ageing model
show how biological evolution can ``teach'' the parasitoids to avoid extinction
by waiting for the right age of the host. We also show the dependence of
extinction time on the population size.Comment: 8 pages including 6 figure
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