The effect of spatially correlated environments on genetic diversity-area relationships.
Summary of "The effect of spatially correlated environments on genetic diversity-area relationships."
Understanding the spatial patterns of genetic diversity and what causes them is an important outstanding question in ecology. Here we investigate the roles of spatial heterogeneity and system area in generating genome diversity, and study its dependence with sampled area. We study an individual-based model that incorporates natural selection on the habitat type and compare the effects of asexual and sexual reproductions. A key ingredient of the model is the possibility to tune the level of spatial heterogeneity among the habitats. Our results corroborate either the bi-phasic or tri-phasic scenarios, one phase corresponding to a power law regime, for the diversity-area relationship in both sexual and asexual populations, being the shape of the curve influenced by mutation rates and spatial correlation. These observations are verified for distinct sets of parameter values.
Affiliation
Departamento de Estatística e Informática, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco 52171-900, Dois Irmãos, Recife-PE, Brazil.
Journal Details
This article was published in the following journal.
Name: Journal of theoretical biology
ISSN: 1095-8541
Pages: 57-65
Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21872606
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.08.019
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