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. 2022 Feb 5;16(6):1512–1522. doi: 10.1038/s41396-022-01198-8

Fig. 2. Spatial structure and variability in competitive outcome depend on founder density.

Fig. 2

AC Example model realisations for different founder densities. All plots show the system’s initial conditions (t=0) and the outcomes after 25 time units. Plots visualising the systems’ states at t=0 show a blow-up of the subdomain Ω0; plots visualising outcomes at t=25 show the full computational domain Ω (black background). The scalebars are seven unit lengths long. A The outcome of simulations initialised with piecewise spatially homogeneous populations representing high founder density. The ‘Merged’ image channel shows both strains (grey colour corresponds to overlap); the B1(green) and B2 (magenta) channels only show single strain filters of the plot. B The range of outcomes observed for low founder density (number of initial cell patches N=6). C The range of outcomes for intermediate founder densities (N=824). In (B, C) only the ‘Merged’ channel is shown. D Variability in competitive outcome increases with decreasing founder density. Each boxplot contains data from 1000 model realisations. Blue and red boxplots correspond to the founder densities in B and C, respectively.