期刊
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE
卷 10, 期 85, 页码 -出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0329
关键词
population genetics; mutagenesis; error threshold; Fisher's fundamental theorem; beneficial mutations
资金
- US National Institutes of Health [R01 GM079843-01, R01 GM079483-02S1, 1P20RR18754, UM1-AI100645-01]
- European Commission [FP7 231807]
When mutation rates are low, natural selection remains effective, and increasing the mutation rate can give rise to an increase in adaptation rate. When mutation rates are high to begin with, however, increasing the mutation rate may have a detrimental effect because of the overwhelming presence of deleterious mutations. Indeed, if mutation rates are high enough: (i) adaptive evolution may be neutralized, resulting in a zero (or negative) adaptation rate despite the continued availability of adaptive and/or compensatory mutations, or (ii) natural selection may be neutralized, because the fitness of lineages bearing adaptive and/or compensatory mutations-whether established or newly arising-is eroded by excessive mutation, causing such lineages to decline in frequency. We apply these two criteria to a standard model of asexual adaptive evolution and derive mathematical expressions-some new, some old in new guise-delineating the mutation rates under which either adaptive evolution or natural selection is neutralized. The expressions are simple and require no a priori knowledge of organism- and/or environment-specific parameters. Our discussion connects these results to each other and to previous theory, showing convergence or equivalence of the different results in most cases.
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