The spatial Lambda-Fleming-Viot process with fluctuating selection

DOI10.1214/21-EJP593zbMATH Open1473.60084arXiv1802.08188OpenAlexW3158140747MaRDI QIDQ2042864FDOQ2042864

Authors: Niloy Biswas, Alison Etheridge, Aleksander Klimek 

Publication date: 21 July 2021

Published in: Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We are interested in populations in which the fitness of different genetic types fluctuates in time and space, driven by temporal and spatial fluctuations in the environment. For simplicity, our population is assumed to be composed of just two genetic types. Short bursts of selection acting in opposing directions drive to maintain both types at intermediate frequencies, while the fluctuations due to 'genetic drift' work to eliminate variation in the population. We consider first a population with no spatial structure, modelled by an adaptation of the Lambda (or generalised) Fleming-Viot process, and derive a stochastic differential equation as a scaling limit. This amounts to a limit result for a Lambda-Fleming-Viot process in a rapidly fluctuating random environment. We then extend to a population that is distributed across a spatial continuum, which we model through a modification of the spatial Lambda-Fleming-Viot process with selection. In this setting we show that the scaling limit is a stochastic partial differential equation. As is usual with spatially distributed populations, in dimensions greater than one, the 'genetic drift' disappears in the scaling limit, but here we retain some stochasticity due to the fluctuations in the environment, resulting in a stochastic p.d.e. driven by a noise that is white in time but coloured in space. We discuss the (rather limited) situations under which there is a duality with a system of branching and annihilating particles. We also write down a system of equations that captures the frequency of descendants of particular subsets of the population and use this same idea of 'tracers', which we learned from Hallatschek and Nelson (2008) and Durrett and Fan (2016), in numerical experiments with a closely related model based on the classical Moran model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08188

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zbMATH Keywords

scaling limitsfluctuating selectionstochastic growth modelstracer dynamicsspatial Lambda Fleming-Viot model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) (60G55) Stochastic partial differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H15) Problems related to evolution (92D15) Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Random measures (60G57)

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