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Analytical study of the effect of recombination on evolution via DNA shuffling

  • Weiqun Peng
  • , Herbert Levine
  • , Terence Hwa
  • , David A. Kessler

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Abstract

DNA shuffling is an evolutionary protocol wherein cycles of selection, recombination, mutation, and amplification are employed to evolve proteins and DNA sequences. Experiments have shown its superiority to traditional protocols which do not employ recombination. Motivated by DNA shuffling, we investigate a multilocus evolutionary model that incorporates selection, recombination, and point mutations. Due to simplicity of the model, for the case of an infinite population we can obtain a full analytical treatment of both its dynamical and equilibrium properties, and study the benefit of recombination explicitly and quantitatively. We also briefly discuss finite-population size corrections.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)15
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical Review E
Volume69
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2004

Funding

FundersFunder number
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences0216576, 0225630

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