A New Approach to Cycling in a 2-locus 2-allele Genetic Model
A New Approach to Cycling in a 2-locus 2-allele Genetic Model
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DOI:
10.1080/1023619031000076551
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发表时间:
2003-05
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
R. Sacker;Hubertus F. von Bremen¶
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作者:
R. Sacker;Hubertus F. von Bremen¶
In the reproductive process new genetic types arise due to crossing over and recombination at the meiotic stage. A simplified biological model will be developed which incorporates this effect and the effect of selection. Although a chromosome may contain thousands of genes we will consider a simplified model consisting of two genetic loci, each containing two alleles of some gene. The model will be then turned into a difference equation or mapping model x* = G(x,r) where x represents the frequency distribution of genotypes in a certain infinite population, x* is this distribution one generation later and r is the recombination parameter. For a certain choice of fitness and recombination parameters the mapping exhibits several fixed points. As r is varied one of the fixed points of the mapping loses its stability due to a conjugate pair of eigenvalues of the linearized mapping leaving the unit disk. It is shown that the required non-resonance conditions and “nonlinear damping” condition are satisfied and thus the fixed point undergoes a Neimark–Sacker bifurcation to a cycling or oscillatory state. Once a cycling orbit is established one can conclude that genetic variation (over time) of the population can be maintained. This work reformulates and proves earlier observations of Alan Hastings in a way that makes the treatment of chromosomes with more genetic loci more straightforward.