Genetic Drift and Selection in Many-Allele Range Expansions
B. T. Weinstein, M. O. Lavrentovich, W. Möbius, A. W. Murray, D. R. Nelson
The paper investigates evolutionary dynamics in expanding E. coli colonies using experiments and simulations, showing that a random-walk model accurately predicts genetic domain behavior with three key parameters.
bioRxiv · Jun 7, 2017Evolutionary Biology