From: The impact of natural transformation on adaptation in spatially structured bacterial populations
Parameter | Description | Unit |
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L and P | Numbers of grid cells in two dimensional space | – |
K | Carrying capacity of each grid cell | – |
r | Growth rate | Per bacterium per unit time |
μ | Mutation rate | Per bacterium per unit time |
m | Intrinsic death rate | Per bacterium per unit time |
u | Transformation rate | Per bacterium per DNA fragment per unit time |
v | Bacterial migration rate | Per bacterium per unit time |
g | DNA diffusion rate | Per DNA fragment per unit time |
s | Selection coefficient | Per bacterium per unit time |
c | DNA decay rate | Per DNA fragment per unit time |