Competing islands limit the rate of adaptation in structured populations.

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Beneficial mutations can co-occur when population structure slows down adaptation. Here, we consider the process of adaptation in asexual populations distributed over several locations ("islands"). New beneficial mutations arise at constant rate ub, and each mutation has the same selective advantage s>0. We assume that populations evolve within islands according to the successional mutations regime of Desai and...

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