How does geographical distance translate into genetic distance?

DOI10.1016/J.SPA.2018.11.004zbMATH Open1481.92185arXiv1703.00357OpenAlexW2594462054WikidataQ128814991 ScholiaQ128814991MaRDI QIDQ2274262FDOQ2274262

Authors: Verónica Miró Pina, Emmanuel Schertzer 

Publication date: 19 September 2019

Published in: Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Geographic structure can affect patterns of genetic differentiation and speciation rates. In this article, we investigate the dynamics of genetic distances in a geographically structured metapopulation. We model the metapopulation as a weighted directed graph, with d vertices corresponding to d subpopulations that evolve according to an individual based model. The dynamics of the genetic distances is then controlled by two types of transitions -mutation and migration events. We show that, under a rare mutation - rare migration regime, intra subpopulation diversity can be neglected and our model can be approximated by a population based model. We show that under a large population - large number of loci limit, the genetic distance between two subpopulations converges to a deterministic quantity that can asymptotically be expressed in terms of the hitting time between two random walks in the metapopulation graph. Our result shows that the genetic distance between two subpopulations does not only depend on the direct migration rates between them but on the whole metapopulation structure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00357

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zbMATH Keywords

Moran modelgraph distancegenetic distancemetapopulation structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Ecology (92D40) Distance in graphs (05C12)

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