Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Tkadlec J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6478818 | biostudies-other | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Tkadlec Josef J Pavlogiannis Andreas A Chatterjee Krishnendu K Nowak Martin A MA
Communications biology 20190423
The rate of biological evolution depends on the fixation probability and on the fixation time of new mutants. Intensive research has focused on identifying population structures that augment the fixation probability of advantageous mutants. But these amplifiers of natural selection typically increase fixation time. Here we study population structures that achieve a tradeoff between fixation probability and time. First, we show that no amplifiers can have an asymptotically lower absorption time t ...[more]