title: Adaptive walks on time-dependent fitness landscapes.
abstract: The idea of adaptive walks on fitness landscapes as a means of studying evolutionary processes on large time scales is extended to fitness landscapes that are slowly changing over time. The influence of ruggedness and of the amount of static fitness contributions is investigated for model landscapes derived from Kauffman's NK landscapes. Depending on the amount of static fitness contributions in the landscape, the evolutionary dynamics can be divided into a percolating and a nonpercolating phase. In the percolating phase, the walker performs a random walk over the regions of the landscape with high fitness.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.
authors.forename: C O
authors.initials: CO
authors.lastname: Wilke
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Martinetz
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004777:Environment; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005828:Genetics, Population; D008957:Models, Genetic; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins