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

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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.

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  1. Via either heritable mutation or, more commonly, recombination (Kutschera and Niklas 2004)

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  1. Department of Physics, Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, MC-704, Urbana, IL, 61801-3080, USA

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Halabi, T. Landau and Lifshitz’ Formulation of Le Chatelier’s Principle: An Insight into Symbiosis?. Acta Biotheor 61, 521–523 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10441-013-9185-5

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