Figure 2
From: Modeling invasion of metastasizing cancer cells to bone marrow utilizing ecological principles
Competition among two species: HSCs as the superior species. The red (dash) line indicates the superior species (HSC); the green (solid) line indicates the inferior species (cancer cells). (A) superior species (HSC) has colonization rate β1 = 0.2, mortality rate μ1 = 0.1 time-1, and initial density = 0.6. The inferior species (cancer cells) has a colonization rate of β2 = 0.8, mortality rate μ2 = 0.1 time-1, and initial density = 0.0001. (B) The inferior species (cancer cells) has an initial density = 0.1; all other conditions remained the same as in (A). (C) Superior species (HSC) has an initial density = 0.4; all other conditions remained the same as in (A).