Fixation in Conditional Branching Process Models in Population Genetics [PDF]
Journal of Applied Probability, 2007 An alternative version of the necessary and sufficient condition for almost sure fixation in the conditional branching process model is derived. This formulation provides an insight into why the examples considered in Buckley and Seneta (1983) all have the same condition for fixation.
Thomas Prince, Neville C. Weber
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Active Information Requirements for Fixation on the Wright-Fisher Model of Population Genetics [PDF]
BIO-Complexity, 2020 15 ...
Daniel Andrés Díaz Pachón +1 more
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POPULATION GENETICS, PLEIOTROPY, AND THE PREFERENTIAL FIXATION OF MUTATIONS DURING ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION [PDF]
Evolution, 2010 Ongoing debate centers on whether certain types of mutations are fixed preferentially during adaptive evolution. Although there has been much discussion, no quantitative framework currently exists to test for these biases. Here, we describe a method for distinguishing between the two processes that likely account for biased rates of substitution ...
Matthew A. Streisfeld, Mark D. Rausher
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Interplay between pleiotropy and secondary selection determines rise and fall of mutators in stress response. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2010 Mutators are clones whose mutation rate is about two to three orders of magnitude higher than the rate of wild-type clones and their roles in adaptive evolution of asexual populations have been controversial.
Muyoung Heo, Eugene I Shakhnovich
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Invasion and effective size of graph-structured populations. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2018 Population structure can strongly affect evolutionary dynamics. The most general way to describe population structures are graphs. An important observable on evolutionary graphs is the probability that a novel mutation spreads through the entire ...
Stefano Giaimo +2 more
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FIXATION OF MUTATORS IN ASEXUAL POPULATIONS: THE ROLE OF GENETIC DRIFT AND EPISTASIS [PDF]
Evolution, 2012 To appear in ...
Apoorva Nagar, Kavita Jain
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Fixation probabilities in network structured meta-populations
Scientific Reports, 2021 The effect of population structure on evolutionary dynamics is a long-lasting research topic in evolutionary ecology and population genetics. Evolutionary graph theory is a popular approach to this problem, where individuals are located on the nodes of a
Sedigheh Yagoobi, Arne Traulsen
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Explaining spatial heterogeneity in population dynamics and genetics from spatial variation in resources for a large herbivore. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Fine-scale spatial variation in genetic relatedness and inbreeding occur across continuous distributions of several populations of vertebrates; however, the basis of observed variation is often left untested.
Adrienne L Contasti +3 more
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Limiting Genotype Frequencies of Y-Linked Genes with a Mutant Allele in a Two-Sex Population
Mathematics, 2021 A two-type two-sex branching process is considered to model the evolution of the number of carriers of an allele and its mutations of a Y-linked gene. The limiting growth rates of the different types of couples and males (depending on the allele, mutated
Miguel González +2 more
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Interplay between extreme drift and selection intensities favors the fixation of beneficial mutations in selfing maize populations [PDF]
Genetics, 2020 Abstract Population and quantitative genetic models provide useful approximations to predict long-term selection responses sustaining phenotypic shifts, and underlying multilocus adaptive dynamics. Valid across a broad range of parameters, their use for understanding the adaptive dynamics of small selfing populations undergoing strong ...
Arnaud Desbiez-Piat +3 more
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