Recombination dramatically speeds up evolution of finite populations

Details Recombination dramatically speeds up evolution of finite populations Recombination dramatically speeds up evolution of finite populations

2004-10-13

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0410015v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.098102

We study the role of recombination, as practiced by genetically-competent bacteria, in speeding up Darwinian evolution. This is done by adding a new process to a previously-studied Markov model of evolution on a smooth fitness landscape; this new process allows alleles to be exchanged with those in the surrounding medium. Our results, both numerical and analytic, indicate that for a wide range of intermediate population sizes, recombination dramatically speeds up the evolutionary advance.

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