Accessibility percolation in random fitness landscapes

Authors :: Krug, Joachim
Source :: In: Probabilistic Structures in Evolution (E. Baake and A. Wakolbinger, eds.), EMS Press, Berlin, 2021, pp. 1-22
Publication Year :: 2019
Abstract: The fitness landscape encodes the mapping of genotypes to fitness and provides a succinct representation of possible trajectories followed by an evolving population. Evolutionary accessibility is quantified by the existence of fitness-monotonic paths connecting far away genotypes. Studies of accessibility percolation use probabilistic fitness landscape models to explore the emergence of such paths as a function of the initial fitness, the parameters of the landscape or the structure of the genotype graph. This chapter reviews these studies and discusses their implications for the predictability of evolutionary processes.<br />Comment: 20 pages, 3 figures

Subjects :: Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution
Mathematics - Probability

Database :: arXiv
Journal :: In: Probabilistic Structures in Evolution (E. Baake and A. Wakolbinger, eds.), EMS Press, Berlin, 2021, pp. 1-22
Publication Type :: Report
Accession number :: edsarx.1903.11913
Document Type :: Working Paper
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.4171/ECR/17-1/1