|
| | | | |
| | | |
| Stat |
Members: 3645
Articles: 2'501'711
Articles rated: 2609
20 April 2024 |
|
| | | | |
|
Article overview
| |
|
|
Quasispecies can exist under neutral drift at finite population sizes | | Robert Forster
; Christoph Adami
; Claus O. Wilke
; | | Date: |
1 Sep 2005 | | Subject: | Populations and Evolution | q-bio.PE | | Abstract: | We investigate the evolutionary dynamics of a finite population of RNA sequences adapting to a neutral fitness landscape. Despite the lack of differential fitness between viable sequences, we observe typical properties of adaptive evolution, such as increase of mean fitness over time and punctuated equilibrium transitions. We discuss the implications of these results for understanding evolution at high mutation rates, and extend the relevance of the quasispecies concept to finite populations and time scales. Our results imply that the quasispecies concept and neutral drift are not complementary concepts, and that the relative importance of each is determined by a combination of population size and mutation rate. | | Source: | arXiv, q-bio.PE/0509002 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
|
|
No review found.
Did you like this article?
Note: answers to reviews or questions about the article must be posted in the forum section.
Authors are not allowed to review their own article. They can use the forum section.
browser Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
News, job offers and information for researchers and scientists:
| |
REGISTER