Journal
THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY
Volume 72, Issue 1, Pages 21-40Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2007.02.005
Keywords
geographical structure; spatial structure; subdivided populations
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The loss of a specified allele and the convergence of the gene frequencies at a single multiallelic locus under the joint action of migration and viability selection are investigated. The monoecious, diploid population is subdivided into finitely many panmictic colonies that exchange adult migrants independently of genotype. Sufficient conditions are established for global fixation and for global loss of a particular allele. When migration is either sufficiently weak or sufficiently strong relative to selection, the equilibria are described, convergence of the gene frequencies is demonstrated, and sufficient conditions for the increase of a suitably defined mean fitness are offered. If the selection pattern is the same in every colony and such that in a panmictic population there is a globally asymptotically stable, internal (i.e., completely polymorphic) equilibrium point, then under certain weak assumptions on migration, the gene frequencies in the subdivided population converge globally to that equilibrium point. Thus, in this case, the ultimate state of the population is unaffected by geographical structure. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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