Evolution of cooperation among different species

• Grant number: 15/11985-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: September 01, 2015
• End date: November 01, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - General Physics
• Principal Investigator: Marcus Aloizio Martinez de Aguiar
• Grantee: Flávia Maria Darcie Marquitti
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 16/01343-7 - ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research: a regional center for theoretical physics, AP.ESP
• Associated scholarship(s): 16/00635-4 - The role of ploidy and reproduction method in the evolution of cooperation between species, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

The evolution of cooperation study has been developed in many areas of science, such as economy, politics, and climate change agreements. In biology, evolution of cooperation can be studied to understand how mutualistic ecological interactions can evolve. Mutualism often occurs between individuals of different species, such as pollination systems, in the protection against natural enemies, and in the cleaning performed by cleaners in clients of reef environments. Different species, here understood as different populations, evolve in response to selective pressures imposed by the environment, by individuals of the same population, or as a consequence of interactions established with individuals from other populations. Spatial distribution, different interaction patterns, and coevolution between individuals can have great importance in establishing cooperation (mutualism) in the studied populations. In this project, I aim to understand how to describe the evolution of different strategies in populations of different species that interact mutualistically, given the spatial structure, the structure of interactions between individuals from different populations, and also the evolution of interactions between populations. To accomplish this, I will use the evolutionary game theory approach in mean field scenarios as well as in static and dynamic networks. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CANTOR, MAURICIO; PIRES, MATHIAS M.; MARQUITTI, FLAVIA M. D.; RAIMUNDO, RAFAEL L. G.; SEBASTIAN-GONZALEZ, ESTHER; COLTRI, PATRICIA P.; PEREZ, S. IVAN; BARNECHE, DIEGO R.; BRANDT, DEBORA Y. C.; NUNES, KELLY; et al. Nestedness across biological scales. PLoS One, v. 12, n. 2, FEB 6 2017. (15/11985-3, 14/21106-4, 11/11346-0, 11/13054-6, 13/02738-7, 13/22016-6, 09/54422-8, 12/09950-9)

COSTA, CAROLINA L. N.; LEMOS-COSTA, PAULA; MARQUITTI, FLAVIA M. D.; FERNANDES, LUCAS D.; RAMOS, MARLON F.; SCHNEIDER, DAVID M.; MARTINS, AYANA B.; DE AGUIAR, MARCUS A. M.. Signatures of Microevolutionary Processes in Phylogenetic Patterns. Systematic Biology, v. 68, n. 1, p. 131-144, JAN 2019. (15/11985-3, 15/26989-4, 16/06054-3, 16/01343-7, 14/10470-7)

CAETANO, R. A.; SANCHEZ, SERGIO; COSTA, CAROLINA L. N.; DE AGUIAR, MARCUS ALOIZIO MARTINEZ. Sympatric speciation based on pure assortative mating. Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical, v. 53, n. 15, APR 17 2020. (16/06054-3, 15/11985-3)

COSTA, CAROLINA L. N.; MARQUITTI, FLAVIA M. D.; IVAN PEREZ, S.; SCHNEIDER, DAVID M.; RAMOS, MARLON F.; DE AGUIAR, MARCUS A. M.. Registering the evolutionary history in individual-based models of speciation. PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, v. 510, p. 1-14, NOV 15 2018. (16/01343-7, 15/11985-3, 16/06054-3)

PIRES, MATHIAS M.; MARQUITTI, FLAVIA M. D.; GUIMARAES, JR., PAULO R.. The friendship paradox in species-rich ecological networks: Implications for conservation and monitoring. Biological Conservation, v. 209, p. 245-252, MAY 2017. (16/00635-4, 15/11985-3)

MOREIRA, CAROLINA A.; DE AGUIAR, MARCUS A. M.. Modular structure in C. elegans neural network and its response to external localized stimuli. PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, v. 533, NOV 1 2019. (15/11985-3)

MOREIRA, CAROLINA A.; DE AGUIAR, MARCUS A. M.. Global synchronization of partially forced Kuramoto oscillators on networks. PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, v. 514, p. 487-496, JAN 15 2019. (16/06054-3, 15/11985-3)

MARQUITTI, FLAVIA MARIA DARCIE; FERNANDES, LUCAS D.; DE AGUIAR, MARCUS ALOIZIO MARTINEZ. Allopatry increases the balance of phylogenetic trees during radiation under neutral speciation. ECOGRAPHY, v. 43, n. 10, JUL 2020. (16/01343-7, 19/20271-5, 15/11985-3)

BARRETO, WENDELL P.; MARQUITTI, FLAVIA M. D.; DE AGUIAR, MARCUS A. M.. A genetic approach to the rock-paper-scissors game. Journal of Theoretical Biology, v. 421, p. 146-152, MAY 21 2017. (16/00635-4, 15/11985-3)