Considerations on the coupling between evaluative dynamics and population growth: phenomenological analysis of the cooperative behavior of bacteria resistant to antibiotics

• Grant number: 15/17395-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2015
• End date: September 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics
• Principal Investigator: Carla Goldman
• Grantee: Vitor Hirata Sanches
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Since its formulation by Maynard Smith in the context of the Evolutionary Theory in the 80's, the Game Theory have been used to deal with questions related to the evolution of a population with respect to its intrinsic features (phenotypics). During the last few years, it has been considered the coupling of the evolutionary dynamic formulated this way with the dynamics that describes the variation of the total number of individuals of a certain population. This formulation is required specially in questions involving populations of microorganisms. We intend to use this joint dynamics to do a phenomenological analysis of recent experimental data suggesting cooperative behavior between bacteria resistant to the action of antibiotics.

Scientific publications

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SANCHES, VITOR H.; KURAOKA, DHYAN V. H.; ALMEIDA, PEDRO R.; GOLDMAN, CARLA. A phenomenological analysis of eco-evolutionary coupling under dilution. Journal of Theoretical Biology, v. 438, p. 156-164, FEB 7 2018. (15/17395-3)