Recombination and peak jumping

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  • Kristina Crona
چکیده

We show that genetic recombination can be a powerful mechanism for escaping suboptimal peaks. Recent studies of empirical fitness landscapes reveal complex gene interactions and multiple peaks. However, classical work on recombination largely ignores the effect of complex gene interactions. Briefly, we restrict to fitness landscapes where the global peak is difficult to access. If the optimal genotype can be generated by shuffling genes present in the population, then recombination will produce the genotype. If, in addition, recombination is sufficiently rare, then the proportion of the genotype is expected to increase. Specifically, we consider landscapes where shuffling of suboptimal peak genotypes can produce the global peak genotype. The advantage of recombination we identify has no correspondence for 2-locus systems or for smooth landscapes. The effect of recombination indicated is sometimes extreme, also for rare recombination, in the sense that shutting off recombination could result in the organism failing to adapt. A standard question about recombination is whether the mechanism tends to accelerate or decelerate adaptation. However, we argue that extreme effects may be more important than how the majority falls. In a limited sense, our result can be considered a support for Sewall Wright's view that adaptation sometimes works better in subdivided populations.

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دوره 13  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2018