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Interplay between Turing pattern formation and domain coarsening in spatially extended population models

We introduce a model of spatially distributed populations of organisms that mate and compete with others in local neighborhoods. Competition for local finite resources causes Turing instability in population distribution, possibly leading to the formation of isolated groups. In the presence of disruptive selec-tion against genetic intermediates, this model also shows dynamically coarsening domains in genetic distribution. We examine the interplay of these two distinct dynamics, both analytically and numerically, to find the domain coarsening pro-cess strongly affected by the spatial separation between groups created by the Turing pattern formation process. The ratio between mating and competition ranges is found to be one of the crucial parameters to determine the long-term evolution of genetic distribution in the population.

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