The spatial Muller's ratchet: Surfing of deleterious mutations during range expansion.

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During a range expansion, deleterious mutations can "surf" on the colonization front. The resultant decrease in fitness is known as expansion load. An Allee effect is known to reduce the loss of genetic diversity of expanding populations, by changing the nature of the expansion from "pulled" to "pushed". We study the impact of an Allee effect on the formation of an expansion load with a new model, in which...

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