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In this communication, the fluctuation of the population of a colony is studied for three processes of reproduction: cloning, meiotic parthenogenesis and sexual reproduction. We find that the magnitude of fluctuation is nearly the same for the three cases. Also, for cloning and sexual reproduction, the fluctuation of population for a particular realisation of a colony is much smaller than the fluctuation of the mean population for different realisations, while for meiotic parthenogenesis the two fluctuations are closer in magnitude.
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Dasgupta, S. Fluctuation of population in penna model. Theory Biosci. 120, 29–32 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12064-001-0029-5
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