DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOR OF STOCHASTIC COMPETITION BETWEEN PLASMID-BEARING AND PLASMID-FREE ORGANISMS IN A CHEMOSTAT MODEL

Abstract

In this paper, a model of stochastic competition between plasmid-bearing and plasmid-free organisms in a chemostat is investigated. First, we show that there is a unique global positive solution for the stochastic system. Second, by employing stochastic Lyapunov functions, Itô formula, strong law of large number and some other important inequalities, stochastic characteristics of the stochastic competition chemostat model are studied such as the stochastic asymptotic behaviors of the system. Finally, some numerical simulations are given.