Stochastic differential equations for evolutionary dynamics with demographic noise and mutations

Details Stochastic differential equations for evolutionary dynamics with demographic noise and mutations Stochastic differential equations for evolutionary dynamics with demographic noise and mutations

2012-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/1203.3367v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

8 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review E

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We present a general framework to describe the evolutionary dynamics of an arbitrary number of types in finite populations based on stochastic differential equations (SDE). For large, but finite populations this allows to include demographic noise without requiring explicit simulations. Instead, the population size only rescales the amplitude of the noise. Moreover, this framework admits the inclusion of mutations between different types, provided that mutation rates, $\mu$, are not too small compared to the inverse population size 1/N. This ensures that all types are almost always represented in the population and that the occasional extinction of one type does not result in an extended absence of that type. For $\mu N\ll1$ this limits the use of SDE's, but in this case there are well established alternative approximations based on time scale separation. We illustrate our approach by a Rock-Scissors-Paper game with mutations, where we demonstrate excellent agreement with simulation based results for sufficiently large populations. In the absence of mutations the excellent agreement extends to small population sizes.

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