ERROR THRESHOLD IN THE EVOLUTION OF DIPLOID ORGANISMS

Authors
ALVES D FONTANARI JF
Citation
D. Alves et Jf. Fontanari, ERROR THRESHOLD IN THE EVOLUTION OF DIPLOID ORGANISMS, Journal of physics. A, mathematical and general, 30(8), 1997, pp. 2601-2607
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Journal of physics. A, mathematical and general → ACNP
ISSN journal
03054470
Volume
30
Issue
8
Year of publication
1997
Pages
2601 - 2607
Database
ISI
SICI code
0305-4470(1997)30:8<2601:ETITEO>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
The effects of error propagation in the reproduction of diploid organi sms are studied within the population genetics framework of the quasis pecies model. The dependence of the error threshold on the dominance p arameter is fully investigated. In particular, it is shown that domina nce can protect the wild-type alleles from the error catastrophe. The analysis is restricted to a diploid analogue of the single-peaked fitn ess landscape.