The Wright–Fisher model with efficiency

González Casanova, Adrián, Miró Pina, Verónica and Juan Carlos Pardo

Theoretical Population Biology, 2020, vol. 132, issue C, 33-46

Abstract: In this article, we propose a Wright–Fisher model with two types of individuals: the inefficient individuals, those who need more resources to reproduce and can have a higher growth rate, and the efficient individuals. In this model, the total amount of resource N is fixed, and the population size varies randomly depending on the number of efficient individuals. We show that, as N increases, the frequency process of efficient individuals converges to a diffusion which is a generalization of the Wright–Fisher diffusion with selection. The genealogy of this model is given by a branching–coalescing process that we call the Ancestral Selection/Efficiency Graph, and that is an extension of the Ancestral Selection Graph (Krone and Neuhauser, 1997a,b). The main contribution of this paper is that, in evolving populations, inefficiency can arise as a promoter of selective advantage and not necessarily as a trade-off.

Keywords: Population genetics; Duality; Ancestral selection graph; Efficiency; Generalized Wright Fisher model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2020.02.003

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