Departing from the classical model of the so-called error threshold of mutating macro-molecules, I have reformulated the model in the context of diploid organisms evolving in sequence space and under conditions of a finite population size. I found - for instance - that dominance properties have a substantial impact on the details of the error threshold (Chpt. 1). I have then asked whether error thresholds can also be observed in more general fitness landscapes than the original single-peaked landscape. For smooth landscapes the answer is negative (Chpt. 2) Studying diploid organism, I also investigated the impact of recombination on the evolutionary dynamics and on the possibility for a population to reach a fitness maximum. I concluded tha...
There is a long tradition in population genetics of exploring the maintenance of variation under mig...
To learn about the past from a sample of genomic sequences, one needs to understand how evolutionary...
In evolve and resequence experiments, a population is sequenced, subjected to selection and then seq...
The genetic basis of adaptive evolution has long escaped the grasp of evolutionarygeneticists due to...
The distribution of fitness effects (DFE) of new mutations plays a fundamental role in evolutionary ...
Only the abstract was published in the proceedings. There is no full text.A vast amount of genetic v...
A correlation between diversity levels and rates of recombination is predicted both by models of pos...
It has been shown that evolutionary computation methods are influenced not only by the fitness funct...
Under the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution, the proportion of effectively neutral mutati...
Factors such as genetic drift and natural selection shape genetic variation between populations. To ...
During adaptive evolutionary processes substantial heterogeneity in selective pressure might act acr...
During adaptive evolutionary processes substantial heterogeneity in selective pressure might act acr...
We investigate how a plymorphism of distinctly different alleles can evolve in an initially monomorp...
The equilibrium properties of a number of deterministic mutation- selection models of sequence evolu...
<p>(A) Simulated trajectory of a neutral allele affected by recurrent selective sweeps, from its ori...
There is a long tradition in population genetics of exploring the maintenance of variation under mig...
To learn about the past from a sample of genomic sequences, one needs to understand how evolutionary...
In evolve and resequence experiments, a population is sequenced, subjected to selection and then seq...
The genetic basis of adaptive evolution has long escaped the grasp of evolutionarygeneticists due to...
The distribution of fitness effects (DFE) of new mutations plays a fundamental role in evolutionary ...
Only the abstract was published in the proceedings. There is no full text.A vast amount of genetic v...
A correlation between diversity levels and rates of recombination is predicted both by models of pos...
It has been shown that evolutionary computation methods are influenced not only by the fitness funct...
Under the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution, the proportion of effectively neutral mutati...
Factors such as genetic drift and natural selection shape genetic variation between populations. To ...
During adaptive evolutionary processes substantial heterogeneity in selective pressure might act acr...
During adaptive evolutionary processes substantial heterogeneity in selective pressure might act acr...
We investigate how a plymorphism of distinctly different alleles can evolve in an initially monomorp...
The equilibrium properties of a number of deterministic mutation- selection models of sequence evolu...
<p>(A) Simulated trajectory of a neutral allele affected by recurrent selective sweeps, from its ori...
There is a long tradition in population genetics of exploring the maintenance of variation under mig...
To learn about the past from a sample of genomic sequences, one needs to understand how evolutionary...
In evolve and resequence experiments, a population is sequenced, subjected to selection and then seq...