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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Adaptation depends critically on the effects of new mutations and their dependency
on the genetic background in which they occur. These two factors can be summarized
by the fitness landscape. However, it would require testing all mutations in all
backgrounds, making the definition and analysis of fitness landscapes mostly inaccessible.
Instead of postulating a particular fitness landscape, we address this problem
by considering general classes of landscapes and calculating an upper limit for
the time it takes for a population to reach a fitness peak, circumventing the
need to have full knowledge about the fitness landscape. We analyze populations
in the weak-mutation regime and characterize the conditions that enable them to
quickly reach the fitness peak as a function of the number of sites under selection.
We show that for additive landscapes there is a critical selection strength enabling
populations to reach high-fitness genotypes, regardless of the distribution of
effects. This threshold scales with the number of sites under selection, effectively
setting a limit to adaptation, and results from the inevitable increase in deleterious
mutational pressure as the population adapts in a space of discrete genotypes.
Furthermore, we show that for the class of all unimodal landscapes this condition
is sufficient but not necessary for rapid adaptation, as in some highly epistatic
landscapes the critical strength does not depend on the number of sites under
selection; effectively removing this barrier to adaptation.
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article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Jorge
full_name: Heredia, Jorge
last_name: Heredia
- first_name: Barbora
full_name: Trubenova, Barbora
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last_name: Trubenova
orcid: 0000-0002-6873-2967
- first_name: Dirk
full_name: Sudholt, Dirk
last_name: Sudholt
- first_name: Tiago
full_name: Paixao, Tiago
id: 2C5658E6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Paixao
orcid: 0000-0003-2361-3953
citation:
ama: Heredia J, Trubenova B, Sudholt D, Paixao T. Selection limits to adaptive walks
on correlated landscapes. Genetics. 2017;205(2):803-825. doi:10.1534/genetics.116.189340
apa: Heredia, J., Trubenova, B., Sudholt, D., & Paixao, T. (2017). Selection
limits to adaptive walks on correlated landscapes. Genetics. Genetics Society
of America. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.189340
chicago: Heredia, Jorge, Barbora Trubenova, Dirk Sudholt, and Tiago Paixao. “Selection
Limits to Adaptive Walks on Correlated Landscapes.” Genetics. Genetics
Society of America, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.189340.
ieee: J. Heredia, B. Trubenova, D. Sudholt, and T. Paixao, “Selection limits to
adaptive walks on correlated landscapes,” Genetics, vol. 205, no. 2. Genetics
Society of America, pp. 803–825, 2017.
ista: Heredia J, Trubenova B, Sudholt D, Paixao T. 2017. Selection limits to adaptive
walks on correlated landscapes. Genetics. 205(2), 803–825.
mla: Heredia, Jorge, et al. “Selection Limits to Adaptive Walks on Correlated Landscapes.”
Genetics, vol. 205, no. 2, Genetics Society of America, 2017, pp. 803–25,
doi:10.1534/genetics.116.189340.
short: J. Heredia, B. Trubenova, D. Sudholt, T. Paixao, Genetics 205 (2017) 803–825.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:50:12Z
date_published: 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-09-20T11:35:03Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: NiBa
doi: 10.1534/genetics.116.189340
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
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- '27881471'
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isi: 1
issue: '2'
language:
- iso: eng
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url: https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.189340
month: '02'
oa: 1
oa_version: Published Version
page: 803 - 825
pmid: 1
project:
- _id: 25B1EC9E-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
call_identifier: FP7
grant_number: '618091'
name: Speed of Adaptation in Population Genetics and Evolutionary Computation
publication: Genetics
publication_identifier:
issn:
- '00166731'
publication_status: published
publisher: Genetics Society of America
publist_id: '6256'
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scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Selection limits to adaptive walks on correlated landscapes
type: journal_article
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