2 papers
math.PR2024
The Accumulation of Beneficial Mutations and Convergence to a Poisson Process
Nantawat Udomchatpitak, Jason Schweinsberg
We consider a model of a population with fixed size , which is subjected to an unlimited supply of beneficial mutations at a constant rate . Individuals with beneficial…
math.PR2019
The Effect of Recombination on the Speed of Evolution
Nantawat Udomchatpitak
It has been a puzzling question why some organisms reproduce sexually. Fisher and Muller hypothesized that reproducing by sex can speed up the evolution. They explained that in the…