Impact of crowding on the diversity of expanding populations
C. F. Schreck, D. Fusco, Y. Karita, S. Martis, J. Kayser, M.-C. Duvernoy, O. Hallatschek
The paper quantifies how crowding affects genetic diversity in expanding microbial populations by showing a power-law distribution of low-frequency clones due to volume-exclusion interactions.
bioRxiv · Jun 2, 2022Evolutionary Biology