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Diffusion approximations in population genetics and the rate of Muller's ratchet
Camila Bräutigam, Matteo Smerlak
Diffusion theory is a central tool of modern population genetics, yielding simple expressions for fixation probabilities and other quantities that are not easily derived from the u…
Effective potential reveals evolutionary trajectories in complex fitness landscapes
Matteo Smerlak
Growing efforts to measure fitness landscapes in molecular and microbial systems are premised on a tight relationship between landscape topography and evolutionary trajectories. Th…
Natural selection as coarsening
Matteo Smerlak
Analogies between evolutionary dynamics and statistical mechanics, such as Fisher's second-law-like "fundamental theorem of natural selection" and Wright's "fitness landscapes", ha…
Universal statistics of selected values
Matteo Smerlak, Ahmed Youssef
Selection, the tendency of some traits to become more frequent than others in a population under the influence of some (natural or artificial) agency, is a key component of Darwini…
Limiting fitness distributions in evolutionary dynamics
Matteo Smerlak, Ahmed Youssef
Darwinian evolution can be modeled in general terms as a flow in the space of fitness (i.e. reproductive rate) distributions. In the diffusion approximation, Tsimring et al. have s…