Evolutionary advantage of small populations on complex fitness landscapes

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1945-1955

  Jain, Kavita ^a   Krug, Joachim ^b   Park, Su Chan ^c  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Clonal interference; Finite population; Fitness landscape; Fixation probability; Three locus models

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FITNESS; HETEROGENEITY; MUTATION; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; HAPLOIDY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC FITNESS; HAPLOIDY; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79957438524     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01280.x     Document Type: Article

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