ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution2022
Evolution in fluctuating environments: A generic modular approach.
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- Microbial diversity and ecological complexity emerging from environmental variation and horizontal gene transfer in a simple mathematical model.BMC biology · 2024Article
- Microbial diversity and ecological complexity emerging from environmental variation and horizontal gene transfer in a simple mathematical model.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- How do fluctuating ecological dynamics impact the evolution of hosts and parasites?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
Evolutionary processes take place in fluctuating environments, where carrying capacities and selective forces vary over time. The fate of a mutant type and the persistence time of polymorphic states were studied in some specific cases of varying environments, but a generic methodology is still lacking. Here, we present such a general analytic framework. We first identify a set of elementary building blocks, a few basic demographic processes like logistic or exponential growth, competition at equilibrium, sudden decline, and so on. For each of these elementary blocks, we evaluate the mean and the variance of the changes in the frequency of the mutant population. Finally, we show how to find the relevant terms of the diffusion equation for each arbitrary combination of these blocks. Armed with this technique one may calculate easily the quantities that govern the evolutionary dynamics, like the chance of ultimate fixation, the time to absorption, and the time to fixation.
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