Altruism and antagonistic pleiotropy in Penna ageing model.
The Penna ageing model is based on mutation accumulation theory. We show that it also allows for self-organization of antagonistic pleiotropy which helps at young age at the expense of old age. This can be interpreted as emergence of altruism.
Cebrat
Stanisław
S
Department of Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Wrocław, ul. Przybyszewskiego 63/77, PL-54148, Wrocław, Poland, cebrat@microb.uni.wroc.pl.
Stauffer
Dietrich
D