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Viability Selection at Linked Sites

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  • Bjarki Eldon

    (Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany)

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Evolutionary ecology may be described as explaining ecology through evolution and vice versa, but one may also view it as an integration of the two fields, where one takes the view that ecology and evolution are inseparable, and one can only begin to understand the biology of organisms by synthesizing the two fields. An example of such a synthesis is the biology of high fecundity and the associated concept of sweepstakes reproduction, or skewed individual recruitment success. As an illustration, we consider selection at linked sites under various dominance and epistasis mechanisms in a diploid population evolving according to random sweepstakes and experiencing recurrent bottlenecks. Using simulations, we give a few examples of the impact of the stated elements on selection. We show that depending on the dominance mechanisms, random sweepstakes can shorten the time to fixation (conditional on fixation) of the fit type at all sites. Bottlenecks tend to increase the fixation time, with random sweepstakes counteracting the effects of bottlenecks on the fixation time. Understanding the effect of random sweepstakes, recurrent bottlenecks, dominance mechanisms and epistasis on the fate of selectively advantageous mutations may help with explaining genetic diversity in natural highly fecund populations possibly evolving under sweepstakes reproduction.

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  • Bjarki Eldon, 2023. "Viability Selection at Linked Sites," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-23, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:11:y:2023:i:3:p:569-:d:1043176
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