Title :
The power of mutation
Author :
Wijkman, Pierre A I
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Syst. Sci., Stockholm Univ., Sweden
Abstract :
Traditional theories in evolutionary biology hold that a neutral mutation occasionally can drift to fixation in a population by genetic drift. In this paper, we determine the frequency of this event more precisely. We show by simulation that a single neutral mutation spreads fast by genetic drift in a population. We show that (1) the size of the spread has a power law distribution, and (2) the required average number of generations for a specific spread size has a power law distribution. We have also shown that sexual reproduction effectively stops large neutral mutations from spreading through the population
Keywords :
biocybernetics; evolution (biological); genetics; simulation; event frequency; evolutionary biology; generation number; genetic drift; neutral mutation; population fixation; power law distribution; sexual reproduction; spread size; Biological system modeling; Biology computing; Computational biology; Computational modeling; Evolution (biology); Evolutionary computation; Frequency; Genetic mutations; Power generation; Systems biology;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Information Systems, 1996., Australian and New Zealand Conference on
Conference_Location :
Adelaide, SA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3667-4
DOI :
10.1109/ANZIIS.1996.573962
