On the stochastic evolution of finite populations

Autor: Max O. Souza, Fabio A. C. C. Chalub
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine
Population Dynamics
Population
Evolutionary game theory
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Evolution
Molecular

03 medical and health sciences
Game Theory
Animals
Statistical physics
Selection
Genetic

Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution
education
Probability
Mathematics
Stochastic Processes
education.field_of_study
Models
Genetic

Markov chain
Stochastic process
Applied Mathematics
Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
Mathematical Concepts
State (functional analysis)
Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
Markov Chains
Term (time)
Fixation (population genetics)
Genetics
Population

030104 developmental biology
Modeling and Simulation
FOS: Biological sciences
Mutation
Mutation (genetic algorithm)
Genetic Fitness
92D15
92D25
15B51
60J10
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.00478
Popis: This work is a systematic study of discrete Markov chains that are used to describe the evolution of a two-types population. Motivated by results valid for the well-known Moran (M) and Wright-Fisher (WF) processes, we define a general class of Markov chains models which we term the Kimura class. It comprises the majority of the models used in population genetics, and we show that many well-known results valid for M and WF processes are still valid in this class. In all Kimura processes, a mutant gene will either fixate or become extinct, and we present a necessary and sufficient condition for such processes to have the probability of fixation strictly increasing in the initial frequency of mutants. This condition implies that there are WF processes with decreasing fixation probability --- in contradistinction to M processes which always have strictly increasing fixation probability. As a by-product, we show that an increasing fixation probability defines uniquely an M or WF process which realises it, and that any fixation probability with no state having trivial fixation can be realised by at least some WF process. These results are extended to a subclass of processes that are suitable for describing time-inhomogeneous dynamics. We also discuss the traditional identification of frequency dependent fitnesses and pay-offs, extensively used in evolutionary game theory, the role of weak selection when the population is finite, and the relations between jumps in evolutionary processes and frequency dependent fitnesses.
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