Analytical results on the Muller's ratchet effect in growing populations
Populations and Evolution
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
Fontanari et al introduced [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 218101 (2003)] a model for studying the Muller's ratchet phenomenon in growing asexual populations. They studied two situations, either including or not a death probability for each newborn, but were able to find analytical (recursive) expressions only in the no-decay case. In this paper a branching process formalism is used to find recorrence equations that generalize the analytical results of the original paper besides confirming the interesting effects their simulations revealed.
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@article{arxiv.0902.4203,
title = {Analytical results on the Muller's ratchet effect in growing populations},
author = {Leonardo P Maia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.4203},
year = {2009}
}
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accepted in Physical Review E