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1 May 2004 MUTATIONAL EFFECTS ON THE CLONAL INTERFERENCE PHENOMENON
Paulo R. A. Campos, Viviane M. de Oliveira
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We study the process of fixation of beneficial mutations in an asexual population by means of a theoretical model. Particularly, we wish to investigate how the supply of deleterious and beneficial mutations influences the dynamics of the adaptive process of an evolving population. It is well known that the deleterious mutations drastically affect the fate of beneficial mutations. In addition, an increasing supply of favorable mutations, to compensate the decay of the fitness due to the accumulation of deleterious mutations, produces the clonal interference phenomenon where advantageous mutations in distinct lineages compete to reach fixation. This competition imposes a limit to the speed of adaptation of the population. Intuitively, we would expect that the interplay of the two mechanisms would conspire to ensure fixation of only large-effect beneficial mutations. Our results, however, show that beneficial mutations of small effect have an increased probability of fixation when both beneficial and deleterious mutations rates are increased.

Paulo R. A. Campos and Viviane M. de Oliveira "MUTATIONAL EFFECTS ON THE CLONAL INTERFERENCE PHENOMENON," Evolution 58(5), 932-937, (1 May 2004). https://doi.org/10.1554/03-665
Received: 17 November 2003; Accepted: 15 January 2004; Published: 1 May 2004
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KEYWORDS
Adaptation
adaptive evolution
beneficial mutations
clonal interference
fixation
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