Fig. 3

When the adhesion capacity of a population is switched, regulation evolved to the opposite strategy. A-A’ Snapshots of a simulation from a simulation with a division-late (A) or a division-early (A’) ancestor that evolved towards the opposite strategy due to a switch in adhesion possibility (A: switch from simulation without adhesion to simulation with adhesion; A’ vice versa.) (seasons were chosen in which cells start on the opposite side of the peak). textbfB-B’ Median time of the first division for all cells in the cluster. in the last ten seasons of the simulations (B: switch from simulation without adhesion to simulation with evolution of adhesion; B’ vice versa.) The left circles in each graph indicate the division time of the ancestral strategy with which continued simulations were started. Four different ancestral strategies without adhesion were continued allowing for evolution of adhesion, and vice versa (5 independent simulations per ancestral strategy)