Jakub Otwinowski, Joachim Krug
Competition between independently arising beneficial mutations is enhanced in spatial populations due to the linear rather than exponential growth of the clones. Recent theoretical studies have pointed out that the resulting fitness dynamics is analogous to a surface growth process, where new layers nucleate and spread stochastically, leading to the build up of scale-invariant roughness. This scenario differs qualitatively from the standard view of adaptation in that the speed of adaptation becomes independent of population size while the fitness variance does not, in apparent violation of Fisher's fundamental theorem. Here we exploit recent progress in the understanding of surface growth processes to obtain precise predictions for the universal, non-Gaussian shape of the fitness distribution for one-dimensional habitats, which are verified by simulations.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4326
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