Simulating inbreeding depression through the mutation accumulation theory

A.o Sousa, S.Moss de Oliveira and Américo T Bernardes

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2000, vol. 278, issue 3, 563-570

Abstract: Using the Penna model for biological aging, which is based on the mutation accumulation theory, we show that the number of homozygous loci corresponding to deleterious mutations is higher in small populations than in large ones. This decrease of heterozygosity may drive small populations to extinction even when no drastic change of the environment occurs.

Keywords: Ageing; Penna model; Monte Carlo simulations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00008-X

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