Fig 2. Winning genotypes in deterministic and stochastic environments.
In both panels blue squares represent the aggregator to non-aggregator ratio and red circles represent the division rate; dashed lines are interpolations. Simulations are initialized with a number of genotypes that compete for a pulse of resources through several growth-starvation cycles. Long realizations show that only one strain (which we call the winner) is able to survive in the stationary state in a given environment. For computational feasibility, the winner is determined as the most abundant genotype at t = 108, when a few genotypes still survive. A) Deterministic environments, simulations are initialized with 4141 genotypes (101 values of α and 41 values of c). B) Stochastic environments. Results averaged over 20 independent simulation runs initialized with 44772 genotypes (1092 values of α and 41 values of c). Parameters as in S1 Table.