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arXiv · 1901.04374

Rare mutations in the spatial Lambda-Fleming-Viot model in a fluctuating environment and SuperBrownian Motion

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We investigate the behaviour of an establishing mutation which is subject to rapidly fluctuating selection under the Lambda-Fleming-Viot model and show that under a suitable scaling it converges to the Feller diffusion in a random environment. We then extend to a population that is distributed across a spatial continuum. In this setting the scaling limit is the SuperBrownian motion in a random environment.The scaling results for the behaviour of the rare allele are achieved via particle representations which belong to the family of `lookdown constructions'. This generalises the results obtained for the neutral version of the model by Chetwynd-Diggle and Etheridge (2018), which was proved using a duality argument. To our knowledge this is the first instance of the application of the lookdown approach in which other techniques seem unavailable.

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Jonathan Chetwynd-Diggle, Aleksander Klimek. 2019-01-14. Rare mutations in the spatial Lambda-Fleming-Viot model in a fluctuating environment and SuperBrownian Motion. https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04374

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