Coincidence of ESAD and ESS in dominant-recessive hereditary systems

J Theor Biol. 2003 Jun 7;222(3):297-305. doi: 10.1016/s0022-5193(03)00027-4.

Abstract

The paper deals with the following question: when do the phenotypic evolutionarily stable state (ESS) and the evolutionarily stable allele distribution (ESAD) coincide? It is supposed that for a sexual population, in dominant-recessive inheritance system, n allele at one autosomal locus determine n possible pure individual phenotypes and each pure phenotype is obtained as the phenotype of a homozygote. Under these conditions, earlier results of the authors imply that, if a phenotype distribution is an ESS then the allele distribution generating it is an ESAD. In this paper, apart from a certain degenerate pay-off matrices, the inverse statement is also proved: if a distribution is an ESAD then the corresponding phenotypic distribution is an ESS.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Alleles
  • Animals
  • Biological Evolution*
  • Genes, Dominant*
  • Genes, Recessive*
  • Genetics, Population
  • Models, Genetic*
  • Phenotype
  • Reproduction / genetics
  • Reproduction, Asexual / genetics