access icon openaccess Cellular automata-based artificial life system of horizontal gene transfer

Mutation and natural selection is the core of Darwin's idea about evolution. Many algorithms and models are based on this idea. However, in the evolution of prokaryotes, more and more researches have indicated that horizontal gene transfer (HGT) would be much more important and universal than the authors had imagined. Owing to this mechanism, the prokaryotes not only become adaptable in nearly any environment on Earth, but also form a global genetic bank and a super communication network with all the genes of the prokaryotic world. Under this background, they present a novel cellular automata model general gene transfer to simulate and study the vertical gene transfer and HGT in the prokaryotes. At the same time, they use Schrodinger's life theory to formulate some evaluation indices and to discuss the intelligence and cognition of prokaryotes which is derived from HGT.

Inspec keywords: evolution (biological); network theory (graphs); genetics; artificial life; cellular automata

Other keywords: natural selection; prokaryote evolution; global genetic bank; mutation; cellular automata-based artificial life system; horizontal gene transfer; Earth; Schrodinger life theory; HGT

Subjects: Combinatorial mathematics; Systems theory applications in biology and medicine; Automata theory

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