Periodic selection and hitchhiking in a bacterial population.

Abstract excerpt

The accumulation of a neutral marker in a bacterial population under balanced growth in a chemostat follows a jagged curve as adaptive variants continuously appear and sweep the population. Such periodic selection curves are simulated in the present work using deterministic equations that, in contrast to previous models, take full account of the stochastic character of the process. The uncertainties due to the...

Topics

• Bacteria
• Biological Evolution
• Mathematics
• Models, Genetic
• Mutation