Clonal interference and Mullerʼs ratchet in spatial habitats
Clonal interference and Mullerʼs ratchet in spatial habitats
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空间栖息地中的克隆干扰和穆勒棘轮
作者:
Jakub Otwinowski;J. Krug
Competition between independently arising beneficial mutations is enhanced in spatial populations due to the linear rather than exponential growth of clones. Recent theoretical studies have pointed out that the resulting fitness dynamics is analogous to a surface growth process, where new layers nucleate and spread stochastically, leading to the build up of scale-invariant roughness. This scenario differs qualitatively from the standard view of adaptation in that the speed of adaptation becomes independent of population size while the fitness variance does not. Here we exploit recent progress in the understanding of surface growth processes to obtain precise predictions for the universal, non-Gaussian shape of the fitness distribution for one-dimensional habitats, which are verified by simulations. When the mutations are deleterious rather than beneficial the problem becomes a spatial version of Mullerʼs ratchet. In contrast to the case of well-mixed populations, the rate of fitness decline remains finite even in the limit of an infinite habitat, provided the ratio U d / s 2 ?> between the deleterious mutation rate and the square of the (negative) selection coefficient is sufficiently large. Using, again, an analogy to surface growth models we show that the transition between the stationary and the moving state of the ratchet is governed by directed percolation.
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3.3
作者:
Su-Chan Park;Joachim Krug
通讯作者:
Joachim Krug
影响因子:
1.4
作者:
Pokalyuk;L. Mathew;D. Metzler;P. Pfaffelhuber
通讯作者:
P. Pfaffelhuber
影响因子:
1.4
作者:
Rouzine, Igor M.;Brunet, Eric;Wilke, Claus O.
通讯作者:
Wilke, Claus O.