Biology – Quantitative Biology – Populations and Evolution
Scientific paper
2007-06-04
Phys. Rev. E 76, 031922 (2007)
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Populations and Evolution
Minor changes. To appear in Phys Rev E
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.76.031922
We consider an asexual population evolving on rugged fitness landscapes which are defined on the multi-dimensional genotypic space and have many local optima. We track the most populated genotype as it changes when the population jumps from a fitness peak to a better one during the process of adaptation. This is done using the dynamics of the shell model which is a simplified version of the quasispecies model for infinite populations and standard Wright-Fisher dynamics for large finite populations. We show that the population fraction of a genotype obtained within the quasispecies model and the shell model match for fit genotypes and at short times, but the dynamics of the two models are identical for questions related to the most populated genotype. We calculate exactly several properties of the jumps in infinite populations some of which were obtained numerically in previous works. We also present our preliminary simulation results for finite populations. In particular, we measure the jump distribution in time and find that it decays as $t^{-2}$ as in the quasispecies problem.
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