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English
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Theory of evolution provides a simple, flexible, and elegant framework to study and explain life around us. Population genetics is a mathematical wing of evolutionary theory. One of its key results connects steady state distribution of observable traits in a population with evolutionary parameters like mutation rate and fitness landscape in which the population is evolving. If number of trait types is very large, which is a relevant limit for molecular biology, then Ewens sampling formula provides a description of the steady state for the case with no natural selection acting on the population. We provide a generalization of this formula to arbitrary fitness landscape and use it to infer distribution of mutation rate and selection pressure along fruit fly chromosomes from sequenced data.
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Fitness landscapes
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Physics and Astronomy
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD_10629
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1 online resource (x, 88 pages) : illustrations
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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School of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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