Figure 1
From: Transition to diversification by competition for multiple resources in catalytic reaction networks
Schematic representation of our model. The system is composed of M tot cells, each of which contains molecule species X j (j=1,…,K M ) that form a catalytic reaction network to replicate each X j . The cells share each resource S k in a common medium, which is consumed by the replication of molecule X k . The resources flow into the common media for the cells from an external reservoir (environment) via diffusion \(-D(S_{k}-{S_{k}^{0}})\) (k=1,…,K R ), where \({S_{k}^{0}}\) is a randomly-fixed constant \({S_{k}^{0}} \in [0,M_{\text {tot}}]\) and D is the diffusion constant