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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 16: Poster - Glasses / Stat. Phys. Bio. / Networks (joint DY/BP/CPP/SOE)

BP 16.25: Poster

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, 09:30–12:30, P1

Multidimensional epistasis and the transitory advantage of sex — •Johannes Neidhart, Stefan Nowak, Ivan G. Szendro, and Joachim Krug — THP, Universität zu Köln, Deutschland

The benefit of sex and recombination is a long standing problem. We numerically study evolutionary dynamics on high dimensional epistatic fitness landscapes, with focus on the temporal development of the evolutionary advantage of recombination. We show that the adaptive advantage of recombination on static landscapes is strictly transitory. These findings are explained by means of well established results for a setup with two loci. It is further shown that the transitory advantage can be prolonged indefinitely in fluctuating environments.