Asymptotic behavior of the rate of adaptation
Yu, Feng ; Etheridge, Alison ; Cuthbertson, Charles
Ann. Appl. Probab., Tome 20 (2010) no. 1, p. 978-1004 / Harvested from Project Euclid
We consider the accumulation of beneficial and deleterious mutations in large asexual populations. The rate of adaptation is affected by the total mutation rate, proportion of beneficial mutations and population size N. We show that regardless of mutation rates, as long as the proportion of beneficial mutations is strictly positive, the adaptation rate is at least $\mathcal{O}(\log^{1-\delta}N)$ where δ can be any small positive number, if the population size is sufficiently large. This shows that if the genome is modeled as continuous, there is no limit to natural selection, that is, the rate of adaptation grows in N without bound.
Publié le : 2010-06-15
Classification:  Adaptation rate,  natural selection,  evolutionary biology,  Moran particle systems,  92D15,  82C22,  60J05,  92D10
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Yu, Feng; Etheridge, Alison; Cuthbertson, Charles. Asymptotic behavior of the rate of adaptation. Ann. Appl. Probab., Tome 20 (2010) no. 1, pp.  978-1004. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1276867304/