Spatial patterns and travelling waves in population genetics.
We consider a reaction-diffusion equation to model a multi-allelic, single locus problem. The population can migrate in a homogeneous region and the diffusion rates depend upon the genotype. It is shown that if there is an equilibrium point with all alleles present and if this polymorphism is stable for the classical reaction system then it is also stable for the reaction-diffusion equation. Also a simplified model is used to investigate which allele will spread in the two-allele case. Alleles which are associated with large fitness and small dispersion do best.
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Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics, The University, Sheffield, U.K.
D000483:Alleles; D005828:Genetics, Population; D005838:Genotype; D008433:Mathematics; D008957:Models, Genetic