Critical properties of complex fitness landscapes

Details Critical properties of complex fitness landscapes Critical properties of complex fitness landscapes

2010-06-15

arxiv.org/abs/1006.2908v1

Proc. 12th Intern. Conf. on Artificial Life, H. Fellerman et al., eds. (MIT Press, 2010), pp. 126-132

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

7 pages, 6 figures, requires alifex11.sty. To appear in Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Artificial Life

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Evolutionary adaptation is the process that increases the fit of a population to the fitness landscape it inhabits. As a consequence, evolutionary dynamics is shaped, constrained, and channeled, by that fitness landscape. Much work has been expended to understand the evolutionary dynamics of adapting populations, but much less is known about the structure of the landscapes. Here, we study the global and local structure of complex fitness landscapes of interacting loci that describe protein folds or sets of interacting genes forming pathways or modules. We find that in these landscapes, high peaks are more likely to be found near other high peaks, corroborating Kauffman's "Massif Central" hypothesis. We study the clusters of peaks as a function of the ruggedness of the landscape and find that this clustering allows peaks to form interconnected networks. These networks undergo a percolation phase transition as a function of minimum peak height, which indicates that evolutionary trajectories that take no more than two mutations to shift from peak to peak can span the entire genetic space. These networks have implications for evolution in rugged landscapes, allowing adaptation to proceed after a local fitness peak has been ascended.

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