Evaluation of Breeding Strategies of Eusocial Species by Gene Extinction Probability (Theory of Biomathematics and Its Applications XVI -Toward quantitative understanding for life Sciences-)

Abstract

Understanding eusociality in the view of Hamilton rule [1] is fundamentally important. Here, using a simple branching processes of gene propagation, we evaluate the extinction probability of genes in different cooperative breeding strategies of eusocial species [2, 3]. We discuss the relationship between the propagation advantage of breeding strategy and Hamilton rule.