Cyclic dominance in evolutionary games: A review

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 11, Issue 100, 2014, Pages

  Szolnoki, Attila ^a   Mobilia, Mauro ^b   Jiang, Luo Luo ^c   Szczesny, Bartosz ^b   Rucklidge, Alastair M ^b   Perc, Matjaž ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Cyclical interactions; Mobility; Pattern formation; Phase transitions; Self organization

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TOOLS;

CO-EVOLUTION; COMPLEX GINZBURG-LANDAU EQUATION; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; MULTI-POINT INTERACTION; PATTERN FORMATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; STATISTICAL PHYSICS;

INTERFACIAL ENERGY;

CYCLIC DOMINANCE; EVOLUTION; GINZBURG LANDAU EQUATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; REVIEW; SPECIES DOMINANCE; ADULT; ANIMAL; GAME; HUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84908153021     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0735     Document Type: Review

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