Fig. 4.

Dependency of the relative abundance of GE-containing protocells on K and $E_{\mathit{tr}}$ for the three division models. From left to right, the panels correspond to the random [7] (A and D), binomial [8] (B and E) and symmetric [9] (C and F) division scenarios, respectively. The rows (A–C) and (D–F) show the outcome of the competition for $r_{\mathcal{N}}/r_{\mathcal{A}}$ = 1.25 and $r_{\mathcal{N}}/r_{\mathcal{A}}$ = 100, respectively, where $r_{\mathcal{A}}=0.01$ . The bottom left corner on each subfigure corresponds to $\left(K\text{,}{E}_{tr}\right)=\left(2,2\right)$ , and the step of the heatmap is 1. The snapshots are taken at $T=3·{10}^3$ and averaged over $M={10}^2$ simulations. The remaining parameters are the same as in Fig. 3.