Fixation of a Deleterious Allele under Mutation Pressure and Finite Selection Intensity

Michael Assaf, Mauro Mobilia

The mean fixation time of a deleterious mutant allele is studied beyond the diffusion approximation. As in Kimura's classical work [M. Kimura, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. Vol.77,…