Figure 3.

The role of suppressed motifs in cycle dynamics. (A) Example of suppressed motifs. For the full list, see appendix A. (B) Average cycle length in randomly sampled networks for n = 7 from a uniform distribution over the space of all interaction network topologies (blue) and from a random sample over networks created by gluing suppressed motifs together (see appendix A). (C) Proportion of network with a given cycle length for random sample over networks created by gluing together a randomly selected subset of all motifs (red) and for a random subset of motifs. Here we see that the decrease in cycle length is not caused by the gluing process but by the motifs themselves.