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The Moran process models the spread of mutations in populations on graphs. We investigate the absorption time of the process, which is the time taken for a mutation introduced at a randomly chosen vertex to either spread to the whole…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Josep Diaz , Leslie Ann Goldberg , David Richerby , Maria Serna

We analyze evolutionary dynamics on graphs, where the nodes represent individuals of a population. The links of a node describe which other individuals can be displaced by the offspring of the individual on that node. Amplifiers of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-27 Laura Hindersin , Arne Traulsen

Broom and Rycht\'{a}\v{r} [Proc. R. Soc. A (2008) 464, 2609--2627] found an exact solution for the fixation probabilities of the Moran process for a structured population, in which the interaction structure among individuals is given by the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-19 Evandro P. de Souza , Armando G. M. Neves

The Moran process is a classic stochastic process that models the rise and takeover of novel traits in network-structured populations. In biological terms, a set of mutants, each with fitness $m\in(0,\infty)$ invade a population of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Petros Petsinis , Andreas Pavlogiannis , Josef Tkadlec , Panagiotis Karras

We consider a generalized version of the birth-death (BD) and death-birth (DB) processes introduced by Kaveh, Komarova, and Kohandel (2015), in which two constant fitnesses, one for birth and the other for death, describe the selection…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Poly H. da Silva , Max O. Souza

We study evolutionary dynamics on graphs in which each step consists of one birth and one death, also known as the Moran processes. There are two types of individuals: residents with fitness $1$ and mutants with fitness $r$. Two standard…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-14 David A. Brewster , Yichen Huang , Michael Mitzenmacher , Martin A. Nowak

The Moran process is a foundational model of genetic drift and mutation in finite populations. In its standard two-allele form with population size $n$, allele counts, and hence allele frequencies, change through stochastic replacement and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-16 Dan Braha , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

Finite and infinite population models are frequently used in population dynamics. However, their interrelationship is rarely discussed. In this work, we examine the limits of large populations of the Moran process (a finite-population…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-10 Fabio A. C. C. Chalub , Max O. Souza

The fixation probability of a mutant in the evolutionary dynamics of Moran process is calculated by the Monte-Carlo method on a few families of clique-based graphs. It is shown that the complete suppression of fixation can be realized with…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-17 Jeong-Ok Choi , Unjong Yu

Evolution occurs in populations of reproducing individuals. In stochastic descriptions of evolutionary dynamics, such as the Moran process, individuals are chosen randomly for birth and for death. If the same type is chosen for both steps,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-13 Michal Pecho , Josef Tkadlec , Martin A. Nowak

Evolutionary dynamics have been traditionally studied in the context of homogeneous populations, mainly described my the Moran process. Recently, this approach has been generalized in \cite{LHN} by arranging individuals on the nodes of a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-06-22 George B. Mertzios , Sotiris Nikoletseas , Christoforos Raptopoulos , Paul G. Spirakis

We study fixation probabilities for the Moran stochastic process for the evolution of a population with three or more types of individuals and frequency-dependent fitnesses. Contrarily to the case of populations with two types of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-26 Eliza M. Ferreira , Armando G. M. Neves

The Colour Refinement algorithm is a classical procedure to detect symmetries in graphs, whose most prominent application is in graph-isomorphism tests. The algorithm and its generalisation, the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm, evaluate local…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Sandra Kiefer , T. Devini de Mel

Computing the rate of evolution in spatially structured populations is difficult. A key quantity is the fixation time of a single mutant with relative reproduction rate $r$ which invades a population of residents. We say that the fixation…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-18 David A. Brewster , Martin A. Nowak , Josef Tkadlec

The spatial structure of an evolving population affects which mutations become fixed. Some structures amplify selection, increasing the likelihood that beneficial mutations become fixed while deleterious mutations do not. Other structures…

Inspired by recent works on evolutionary graph theory, an area of growing interest in mathematical and computational biology, we present the first known examples of undirected structures acting as suppressors of selection for any fitness…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-01 Fernando Alcalde Cuesta , Pablo González Sequeiros , Álvaro Lozano Rojo

In genetics the Moran model describes the neutral evolution of a bi-allelic gene in a population of haploid individuals subjected to mutations. We show in this paper that this model can be mapped into an influence dynamical process on…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-17 Marcus A. M. de Aguiar , Yaneer Bar-Yam

The population structure often impacts evolutionary dynamics. In constant-selection evolutionary dynamics between two types, amplifiers of selection are networks that promote the fitter mutant to take over the entire population, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-04 Jnanajyoti Bhaumik , Naoki Masuda

Evolutionary graph theory studies the evolutionary dynamics of populations structured on graphs. A central problem is determining the probability that a small number of mutants overtake a population. Currently, Monte Carlo simulations are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Paulo Shakarian , Patrick Roos , Geoffrey Moores

Consider a two-type Moran population of size $N$ with selection and mutation, where the selective advantage of the fit individuals is amplified at extreme environmental conditions. Assume selection and mutation are weak with respect to $N$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Fernando Cordero , Grégoire Véchambre