Figure 4
From: Programmed cell death can increase the efficacy of microbial bet hedging
PCD effects in clonal populations in the ABM. (A) The grand mean log population size of clonal populations is shown for strains with different amounts of PCD. Populations without PCD are significantly smaller than PCD+ populations (Tukey’s HSD, p < 0.05). Data are from 10 simulations run with a disaster probability of 0.01, migration rates of 0.005 and 0.01 (5 reps each), and for patch-level K of 10. (B) The coefficient of variation in population size is shown across time for strains with different amounts of PCD. The PCD+ strains have lower variation than the PCD− strain, indicating that cell death buffers populations from variation in fitness through time.
