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Chikara Furusawa1, Kunihiko Kaneko
1Department of Bioinformatics Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
Abstract:
The evolutionary origin of general statistics in a biochemical reaction network is studied here to explain the power-law distribution of reaction links and the power-law distribution of chemical abundance. Using cell models with catalytic reaction networks, we have confirmed that the power-law distribution for the abundance of chemicals emerges by the selection of cells with higher growth rates, as suggested in our previous study [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 088102 (2003)]. Through further evolution, this inhomogeneity in chemical abundance is shown to be embedded in the distribution of links, leading to the power-law distribution. We analyze the mechanism of this embedding and discuss the generality of the results.
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