Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4616701 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 2013 10 Pages PDF
Abstract

We introduce a selection-mutation model for an age and age at maturity structured population. The age at maturity is considered an evolutionary trait on which the vital rates depend, subject to selection by competition, and to mutation modelled by a birth term which takes the form of a convolution-like operator. We prove well-posedness of the initial value problem and the existence of non-trivial steady states under suitable hypotheses which yield uniqueness when the interaction variable is one-dimensional.

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