Hidden role of mutations in the evolutionary process.

Abstract excerpt

Mutations not only alter allele frequencies in a genetic pool but may also determine the fate of an evolutionary process. Here we study which allele fixes in a one-step, one-way model including the wild type and two adaptive mutations. We study the effect of the four basic evolutionary mechanisms-genetic drift, natural selection, mutation, and gene flow-on mutant fixation and its kinetics. Determining which...

Topics

• Alleles
• Biological Evolution
• Models, Genetic
• Mutation
• Selection, Genetic