Evolution in range expansions with competition at rough boundaries

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2019.06.018MaRDI QIDQ2317068zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sherry Chu, Mehran Kardar, D. R. Nelson, Daniel A. Beller

Publication date 8 August 2019

Published in Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09279

zbMATH Keywords

evolutionmicrobial range expansionsroughening population frontsuperdiffusive wandering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Ecology (92D40)

Abstract: When a biological population expands into new territory, genetic drift develops an enormous influence on evolution at the propagating front. In such range expansion processes, fluctuations in allele frequencies occur through stochastic extit{spatial} wandering of both genetic lineages and the boundaries between genetically segregated sectors. Laboratory experiments on microbial range expansions have shown that this stochastic wandering, transverse to the front, is superdiffusive due to the front's growing roughness, implying much faster loss of genetic diversity than predicted by simple flat front diffusive models. We study the evolutionary consequences of this superdiffusive wandering using two complementary numerical models of range expansions: the stepping stone model, and a new interpretation of the model of directed paths in random media, in the context of a roughening population front. Through these approaches we compute statistics for the times since common ancestry for pairs of individuals with a given spatial separation at the front, and we explore how environmental heterogeneities can locally suppress these superdiffusive fluctuations.

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