Local dispersal promotes biodiversity in a real-life game of rock–paper–scissors

By Benjamin Kerr, M. Riley, Michal Feldman, B. Bohannan. Nature, 2002

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Evolutionary game theory: Theoretical concepts and applications to microbial communities (2010, background): “For non-transitive dynamics, like the rock-scissors-paper game played by some microbes [1], there is a mobility threshold which demarcates regimes of maintenance and loss of biodiversity [73].”
Cyclic dominance in evolutionary games: a review (2014, methodology): “coli bacteria are known to mutate [2], and it was found that the side-blotched lizards Uta stansburiana are not only engaged in cyclic competition, but they can also undergo throat colour transformations [92].”
Fungal Community Ecology: A Hybrid Beast with a Molecular Master (2008, background): “…dynamics (Hubbell 2001), microscale fluctuations in abiotic conditions coupled with strong niche partitioning, and “rock-scissors-paper” competitive dynamics (Kerr et al. 2002)—and determining their relative importance in fungal assemblages would be a major contribution to the field of ecology.”
Epistasis and the Dynamics of Reversion in Molecular Evolution (2016, background): “However, we may expect reversion rates to sometimes increase in time under conditions where fitness is non-transitive (e.g. Kerr et al. 2002) or when environments change in a cyclic manner (e.g. Leslie et al. 2004; Hensley et al. 2009; Bergland et al. 2014).”
Rapid Evolutionary Change and the Coexistence of Species (2011, background): “In asexual systems, localized dispersal and competition tended to increase stability, as has been found in other intransitive systems (Kerr et al. 2002).”
Snowdrift game dynamics and facultative cheating in yeast (2009, positive): “Coexistence between cooperator and cheater strains in our experiments provide a concrete example of how interactions between alternative alleles can promote biological diversity11,24,26.”
Contribution of neutral processes to the assembly of gut microbial communities in the zebrafish over host development (2015, background): “They also allow researchers to quantify the importance of processes which are difficult to observe directly, such as dispersal, but can nevertheless have large impacts on microbial communities (Kerr et al., 2002; Lindström and Östman, 2011).”
Population Dynamics of Harmful Cyanobacteria (2005, background): “ Kerr et al. (2002) threw three E .c oli strains into the competitive arena.”
Plant–soil feedbacks contribute to an intransitive competitive network that promotes both genetic and species diversity (2011, background): “Intransitive networks can maintain either allelic or species diversity in mathematical models (Laird & Schamp 2006; Vellend & Litrico 2008), and occur in systems ranging from microbial communities to coral reefs (Buss & Jackson 1979; Sinervo&Lively 1996;Kerr et al. 2002).”
Changes in turbulent mixing shift competition for light between phytoplankton species (2004, background): “…theoretical studies on mixing processes, which generally predict high species diversity at low mixing intensity (e.g., Levin 1974, Powell and Richerson 1985, Hassell et al. 1994, Kerr et al. 2002), our competition model predicts little opportunity for species coexistence (Huisman et al. 1999c).”
Natural Selection as a Population-Level Causal Process (2006, background): “Some authors argue that natural selection is nothing but a population-level, statistical consequence of lower-level events (Matthen and Ariew [2002]; Walsh et al. [2002]).”