Kuri: A Simulator of Ecological Genetics for Tree Populations

Alle, Benn R.; Furtado-Alle, Lupe; Gondro, Cedric; Magalhães, João Carlos M.

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Volume 2009 | Article ID 783647 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/783647

Kuri: A Simulator of Ecological Genetics for Tree Populations

Benn R. Alle,¹Lupe Furtado-Alle,¹Cedric Gondro,²and João Carlos M. Magalhães¹

Academic Editor: Marylyn Ritchie

Received06 Oct 2008

Accepted19 May 2009

Published26 Jul 2009

Abstract

This paper presents Kuri, a software package developed to simulate the temporal and spatial dynamics of genetic variability in populations and multispecies communities of trees, as well as their interactions with environmental factors. A conceptual model using agents inspired on Echo models is used to define the environment, the hierarchical structures, and the low-level rules of the system. At the individual agent (tree) level a genetic algorithm is used to model the genotypic structure and the genetic processes, from a small set of simple rules, complex higher-order population, and environmental interactions emerge. The program was written in Delphi for the Windows environment, and was designed to be used for educational and research purposes.

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Copyright © 2009 Benn R. Alle et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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