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    • Evolutionary Biology
    • Population Genetics
    • Theoretical Biology

    Background:

    • Adaptive landscapes, conceptualized by Sewall Wright, offer a framework for evolutionary dynamics but are challenging to construct explicitly.
    • Quantifying evolutionary processes, especially neutral evolution, using adaptive landscapes remains a significant challenge in population genetics.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To analytically derive an adaptive landscape as a potential function for the one-dimensional Wright-Fisher process.
    • To characterize dynamical behaviors under mutation, random drift, and additive selection for all possible rates.
    • To address challenges in quantifying neutral evolution and handling non-normalizable distributions in evolutionary models.

    Main Methods:

    • Analytical derivation of an adaptive landscape for the one-dimensional Wright-Fisher process.
    • Application of the landscape framework to analyze dynamics under mutation, random drift, and additive selection.
    • Investigation of critical states and non-normalizable stationary distributions related to landscape singularities.

    Main Results:

    • An explicit adaptive landscape was obtained as a potential function, providing a complete characterization of dynamics for all mutation rates.
    • The analysis successfully applied to additive selection and random drift scenarios, directly identifying critical states between stable basins.
    • The adaptive landscape framework effectively handles pure random drift, including non-normalizable stationary distributions arising from landscape singularities.

    Conclusions:

    • The derived adaptive landscape provides a powerful tool for quantifying evolutionary dynamics, particularly for neutral evolution and under various selection pressures.
    • The framework elucidates the role of mutation, drift, and selection in shaping evolutionary trajectories and identifying critical evolutionary states.
    • A novel type of neutral evolution is proposed, characterized by equal probability for all states and zero representation of non-neutral alleles.