Mutations as Levy flights
Populations and Evolution
2022-05-20 v7
Abstract
Data from a long time evolution experiment with Escherichia Coli and from a large study on copy number variations in subjects with european ancestry are analyzed in order to argue that mutations can be described as Levy flights in the mutation space. These Levy flights have at least two components: random single-base substitutions and large DNA rearrangements. From the data, we get estimations for the time rates of both events and the size distribution function of large rearrangements.
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@article{arxiv.1605.09697,
title = {Mutations as Levy flights},
author = {Dario Leon and Augusto Gonzalez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.09697},
year = {2022}
}