Amplification on undirected population structures: Comets beat stars

Pavlogiannis A, Tkadlec J, Chatterjee K, Nowak M. 2017. Amplification on undirected population structures: Comets beat stars. Scientific Reports. 7(1), 82.

Download
OA IST-2018-938-v1+1_2017_Pavlogiannis_Amplification_on.pdf 1.54 MB [Published Version]

Journal Article | Published | English

Scopus indexed
Department
Abstract
The fixation probability is the probability that a new mutant introduced in a homogeneous population eventually takes over the entire population. The fixation probability is a fundamental quantity of natural selection, and known to depend on the population structure. Amplifiers of natural selection are population structures which increase the fixation probability of advantageous mutants, as compared to the baseline case of well-mixed populations. In this work we focus on symmetric population structures represented as undirected graphs. In the regime of undirected graphs, the strongest amplifier known has been the Star graph, and the existence of undirected graphs with stronger amplification properties has remained open for over a decade. In this work we present the Comet and Comet-swarm families of undirected graphs. We show that for a range of fitness values of the mutants, the Comet and Cometswarm graphs have fixation probability strictly larger than the fixation probability of the Star graph, for fixed population size and at the limit of large populations, respectively.
Publishing Year
Date Published
2017-03-06
Journal Title
Scientific Reports
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
Volume
7
Issue
1
Article Number
82
ISSN
IST-REx-ID
512

Cite this

Pavlogiannis A, Tkadlec J, Chatterjee K, Nowak M. Amplification on undirected population structures: Comets beat stars. Scientific Reports. 2017;7(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00107-w
Pavlogiannis, A., Tkadlec, J., Chatterjee, K., & Nowak, M. (2017). Amplification on undirected population structures: Comets beat stars. Scientific Reports. Nature Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00107-w
Pavlogiannis, Andreas, Josef Tkadlec, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin Nowak. “Amplification on Undirected Population Structures: Comets Beat Stars.” Scientific Reports. Nature Publishing Group, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00107-w.
A. Pavlogiannis, J. Tkadlec, K. Chatterjee, and M. Nowak, “Amplification on undirected population structures: Comets beat stars,” Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1. Nature Publishing Group, 2017.
Pavlogiannis A, Tkadlec J, Chatterjee K, Nowak M. 2017. Amplification on undirected population structures: Comets beat stars. Scientific Reports. 7(1), 82.
Pavlogiannis, Andreas, et al. “Amplification on Undirected Population Structures: Comets Beat Stars.” Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, 82, Nature Publishing Group, 2017, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00107-w.
All files available under the following license(s):
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0):
Main File(s)
Access Level
OA Open Access
Date Uploaded
2018-12-12
MD5 Checksum
7d05cbdd914e194a019c0f91fb64e9a8


Export

Marked Publications

Open Data ISTA Research Explorer

Search this title in

Google Scholar