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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik
BP 18: Posters: Statistical Physics in Biological Systems
BP 18.32: Poster
Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 17:30–19:30, Poster A
Predictability of evolution depends nonmonotonically on population size — •Ivan G. Szendro1, Jasper Franke1, J. Arjan G.M. de Visser2, and Joachim Krug Krug1 — 1Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, Germany — 2Laboratory of Genetics, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
We study Wright-Fisher dynamics on an empirical 8-locus fitness landscape (FL) obtained experimentally for the filamentous fungus Aspergillus Niger. In order to measure predictability, we define entropy measures on the observed paths. We find a non monotonic dependance of the entropy on population sizes, N, for fixed mutation rates, µ. The initial decrease of entropy and the subsequent increase, for ever larger N, are governed by the scales Nµ and Nµ2, respectively, and the amplitude of this pattern is determined by the magnitude of µ. We also study the departure from the strong selection weak mutation regime, when increasing N, for the probability of the largest subpopulation to end up on the wild type genotype. To show that our observations are generic, we compare our findings for the experimental FL with data obtained on a simple model landscape.