A stochastic model for reproductive isolation under asymmetrical mating preferences

DOI10.1007/S11538-018-0479-2zbMATH Open1400.92581arXiv1709.05987OpenAlexW2963024403WikidataQ90864492 ScholiaQ90864492MaRDI QIDQ1990155FDOQ1990155

Authors: Hélène Leman 

Publication date: 24 October 2018

Published in: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: More and more evidence shows that mating preference is a mechanism that may lead to a reproductive isolation event. In this paper, a haploid population living on two patches linked by migration is considered. Individuals are ecologically and demographically neutral on the space and differ only on a trait, $a$ or $A$, affecting both mating success and migration rate. The special feature of this paper is to assume that the strengths of the mating preference and the migration depend on the trait carried. Indeed, patterns of mating preferences are generally asymmetrical between the subspecies of a population. I prove that mating preference interacting with frequency-dependent migration behavior can lead to a reproductive isolation. Then, I describe the time before reproductive isolation occurs. To reach this result, I use an original method to study the limiting dynamical system, analyzing first the system without migration and adding migration with a perturbation method. Finally, I study how the time before reproductive isolation is influenced by the parameters of migration and of mating preferences, highlighting that large migration rates tend to favor types with weak mating preferences.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05987

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zbMATH Keywords

dynamical systemlong-time behaviorperturbation methodmating preferenceasymmetrical preferencebirth-death stochastic model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of branching processes (60J85) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Ecology (92D40)

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