Evolution of adaptation mechanisms: adaptation energy, stress, and oscillating death

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2015.12.017zbMATH Open1343.92344arXiv1512.03949OpenAlexW2210392947WikidataQ55896298 ScholiaQ55896298MaRDI QIDQ307683FDOQ307683

Alexander N. Gorban, Lyudmila I. Pokidysheva, Tatiana A. Tyukina, Elena V. Smirnova

Publication date: 5 September 2016

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 1938, H. Selye proposed the notion of adaptation energy and published "Experimental evidence supporting the conception of adaptation energy". Adaptation of an animal to different factors appears as the spending of one resource. Adaptation energy is a hypothetical extensive quantity spent for adaptation. This term causes much debate when one takes it literally, as a physical quantity, i.e. a sort of energy. The controversial points of view impede the systematic use of the notion of adaptation energy despite experimental evidence. Nevertheless, the response to many harmful factors often has general non-specific form and we suggest that the mechanisms of physiological adaptation admit a very general and nonspecific description. We aim to demonstrate that Selye's adaptation energy is the cornerstone of the top-down approach to modelling of non-specific adaptation processes. We analyse Selye's axioms of adaptation energy together with Goldstone's modifications and propose a series of models for interpretation of these axioms. {em Adaptation energy is considered as an internal coordinate on the `dominant path' in the model of adaptation}. The phenomena of `oscillating death' and `oscillating remission' are predicted on the base of the dynamical models of adaptation. Natural selection plays a key role in the evolution of mechanisms of physiological adaptation. We use the fitness optimization approach to study of the distribution of resources for neutralization of harmful factors, during adaptation to a multifactor environment, and analyse the optimal strategies for different systems of factors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03949

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zbMATH Keywords

adaptationoptimalityphysiologyevolutionfitnessgeneral adaptation syndrome

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15)

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