4 papers
How recombination rates affect escape from low-fitness states
Elisa Heinrich-Mora, Chase Van Amburg, Marcus W. Feldman
Adaptation often requires the assembly of favorable combinations of mutations that are individually deleterious. As a result, populations may remain trapped in low-fitness genetic…
Mutation Rate Variation Across Genomic Regions in \textit{Arabidopsis thaliana}
Elisa Heinrich-Mora, Marcus W. Feldman
In population genetics, mutation rate is often treated as a homogeneous parameter across the genome. Empirical evidence, however, shows systematic variation across genomic contexts…
Recombination Rate Modifiers under Stochastic Transmission
Elisa Heinrich-Mora, Marcus W. Feldman
The Reduction Principle states that, near a stable equilibrium under fixed viability selection, a selectively neutral modifier allele that reduces recombination rate among selected…
Evolution under Stochastic Transmission: Mutation-Rate Modifiers
Elisa Heinrich-Mora, Marcus Feldman
Evolutionary analyses of large populations commonly incorporate stochasticity through temporal variation in selection while treating genetic transmission as fixed. Much less attent…