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Published on: December 12, 2009
Coincidence of ESAD and ESS in dominant-recessive hereditary systems
1Ecological Modelling Research Group, Department of Plant Taxonomy and Ecology, Hungarian Academy of Science, L. Eötvös University, Ludovika tér 2, Budapest H-1038, Hungary. garayj@ludens.elte.hu
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.
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