| Issue |
EPL
Volume 96, Number 5, December 2011
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| Article Number | 58006 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/96/58006 | |
| Published online | 23 November 2011 | |
Number of adaptive steps to a local fitness peak
Theoretical Sciences Unit and Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research - Jakkur P.O., Bangalore 560064, India
Received:
6
September
2011
Accepted:
19
October
2011
We consider a population of genotype sequences evolving on a rugged fitness landscape with many local fitness peaks. The population walks uphill until it encounters a local fitness maximum. We find that the statistical properties of the walk length depend on whether the underlying fitness distribution has a finite mean. If the mean is finite, all the walk length cumulants grow with the sequence length but approach a constant otherwise. Experimental implications of our analytical results are also discussed.
PACS: 87.23.-n – Ecology and evolution / 02.50.-r – Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics / 05.40.Fb – Random walks and Levy flights
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