The traveling-wave approach to asexual evolution: Muller's ratchet and speed of adaptation

DOI10.1016/j.tpb.2007.10.004zbMath1202.92066arXiv0707.3469WikidataQ41853709 ScholiaQ41853709MaRDI QIDQ615387

Claus O. Wilke, Éric Brunet, Igor M. Rouzine

Publication date: 5 January 2011

Published in: Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3469

zbMATH Keywords

evolution; traveling wave; adaptation; stochastic; fitness; solitary; asexual; multi-locus; semi-deterministic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

92D15: Problems related to evolution

37N25: Dynamical systems in biology

35Q92: PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences

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