Figure 4
From: The evolutionary advantage of heritable phenotypic heterogeneity
Fixation of a phenotypically variable allele in a periodic environment. (A) The phenotypic memory p, on the x-axis, is plotted against the fixation probability of a novel a allele in a population of size N = 1000. Different colors represent different variances of the a phenotype, Var (Φ a ), as indicated. The duration of one environmental period is n = 20. The first environment is always E 1, in this figure. (B) The environmental duration is plotted on the x-axis, against 1 − p*, where p* is the value of phenotypic memory that maximizes the probability of fixation in a population of size N = 1000. Different colors represent different phenotypic variances of the a allele, Var (Φ a ), as indicated. The curves show cubic spline fits to the simulated data.
