Asynchronous abundance fluctuations can drive giant genotype frequency fluctuations
Joao A Ascensao,
Kristen Lok,
Oskar Hallatschek
Abstract:Large stochastic population abundance fluctuations are ubiquitous across the tree of life1–7, impacting the predictability of population dynamics and influencing eco-evolutionary outcomes. It has generally been thought that these abundance fluctuations do not strongly impact evolution, as the relative frequencies of alleles in the population will be unaffected if the abundance of all alleles fluctuate in unison. However, we argue that large abundance fluctuations can lead to significant genotype frequency fluc… Show more
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