Environmental stochasticity and the speed of evolution

DOI10.1007/S10955-018-1990-4MaRDI QIDQ1668960zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Matan Danino, David A. Kessler, Nadav M. Shnerb

Publication date 29 August 2018

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.05089

zbMATH Keywords

population geneticsenvironmental stochasticityfixation probabilityspeed of evolutiondemographic stochasticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Ecology (92D40)

Abstract: Biological populations are subject to two types of noise: demographic stochasticity due to fluctuations in the reproductive success of individuals, and environmental variations that affect coherently the relative fitness of entire populations. The rate in which the average fitness of a community increases has been considered so far using models with pure demographic stochasticity; here we present some theoretical considerations and numerical results for the general case where environmental variations are taken into account. When the competition is pairwise, fitness fluctuations are shown to reduce the speed of evolution, while under global competition the speed increases due to environmental stochasticity.

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