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From: Spatial aspects of prebiotic replicator coexistence and community stability in a surface-bound RNA world model

Figure 3

The maximum number of coexisting metabolic replicators as the function of replicator diffusion ( D ), metabolic ( h ) and replication ( r ) neighbourhood size. The panels of the figure differ in the number of diffusion steps per generation: Panel A: D = 0 , Panel B: D = 1, Panel C: D = 4 and Panel D: D = 100 x- and y-axes are the sizes of metabolic neighbourhoods (h) and replication neighbourhoods (r) respectively (N: von Neumann neighbourhood; 3: 3×3, 5: 5×5, 7: 7×7, 25: 25×25 and 37: 37×37 Moore neighbourhoods). The numbers within panels show the maximum number of coexisting metabolic replicator types (n max = q) for the given parameter set. Other parameters: p d  = 0.2, C e  = 2.0, k i  = 3.0 + 2.0i (i = 0, .., max). (max. is the maximal number of replicators that can be seen within a square on the panel).

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