Acta Biotheoretica

, Volume 61, Issue 4, pp 521–523 | Cite as

Landau and Lifshitz’ Formulation of Le Chatelier’s Principle: An Insight into Symbiosis?

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Abstract

A correspondence allows application of Landau and Lifshitz’ formulation of Le Chatelier’s principle from statistical physics to a simple 2-D model of biological symbiosis. The insight: symbionts stabilize the occupation of narrow peaks on fitness landscape.

Keywords

Fitness landscape Stability Narrow peaks Symbiosis 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Physics, Institute for Condensed Matter TheoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbanaUSA

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