Selection, mutation and sexual reproduction in an infinite haploid population with a genome of finite length

✍ Scribed by Anna Fukshansky

• Book ID: 104034675
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 184 KB
• Volume: 237
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5193
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.04.011

✦ Synopsis

We present a model which describes mutation, selection and sexual reproduction in an infinite haploid population with a finite genome. Each generation is described using an approximation which assures a certain persistent form of the distribution of the number of deleterious elements. The steady state exists and is determined. In addition, we conclude that the introduction of sexual reproduction increases the mean fitness in the equilibrium.