Fig. 3.

(a) Growth rate R as a function of N_E for $N_0=1000$, $N=5\times {10}^6$, L=9, $T_0=1500\mathrm{s}$; $\gamma ={10}^{-2}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$; f=1. (b) Optimal repair enzyme number $N_E^{\mathrm{opt}}$ as a function of the initial number of damaged bases N₀, for the same parameters.