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Multilocus dynamics under haploid selection.

V Kirzhner·Y Lyubich
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Abstract

A general haploid selection model with arbitrary number of multiallelic loci and arbitrary linkage distribution is considered. The population is supposed to be panmictic. A dynamically equivalent diploid selection model is introduced. There is a position effect in this model if the original haploid selection is not multiplicative. If haploid selection is additive then the fundamental theorem is established even with an estimate for the change in the mean fitness. On this basis exponential convergence to an equilibrium is proved. As rule, the limit states are single-gamete ones. If, moreover, linkage is tight, then the single-gamete state with maximal fitness attracts the population for almost all initial states.

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V Kirzhner, Y Lyubich. 1997. Multilocus dynamics under haploid selection.. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002850050058

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