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Spatially localized 2-D spot patterns occur for a wide variety of two component reaction-diffusion systems in the singular limit of a large diffusivity ratio. Such localized, far-from-equilibrium, patterns are known to exhibit a wide range of different instabilities such as breathing oscillations, spot annihilation, and spot self-replication behavior. Prior numerical simulations of the Schnakenberg and Brusselator systems have suggested that a localized peanut-shaped linear instability of a localized spot is the mechanism initiating a fully nonlinear spot self-replication event. From a development and implementation of a weakly nonlinear theory for shape deformations of a localized spot, it is shown through a normal form amplitude equation that a peanut-shaped linear instability of a steady-state spot solution is always subcritical for both the Schnakenberg and Brusselator reaction-diffusion systems. The weakly nonlinear theory is validated by using the global bifurcation software {em pde2path} [H.~Uecker et al., Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, {bf 7}(1), (2014)] to numerically compute an unstable, non-radially symmetric, steady-state spot solution branch that originates from a symmetry-breaking bifurcation point.
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