Survival under high mutation rates
Populations and Evolution
2014-10-24 v1 Probability
Abstract
We consider a stochastic model for an evolving population. We show that in the presence of genotype extinctions the population dies out for a low mutation probability but may survive for a high mutation probability. This turns upside down the widely held belief that above a certain mutation threshold a population cannot survive.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1410.6386,
title = {Survival under high mutation rates},
author = {Rinaldo B. Schinazi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.6386},
year = {2014}
}