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Peter Olofsson1, Kevin Livingstone2, Joshua Humphreys2
1Department of Mathematics, Trinity University, United States; School of Engineering, Jönköping University, Sweden.
Abstract:
Speciation is characterized by the development of reproductive isolating barriers between diverging groups. A seminal paper of a mathematical model of speciation was published by Orr (1995), extended by Livingstone et al. (2012) to incorporate interaction networks. Here, we further develop the model to take into account the possibility of different substitution rates for network nodes of different connectivity. Mathematically, this amounts to sampling nodes from an undirected graph where the inclusion probability for a given node depends on its degree (number of connecting edges). We establish formulas for the rate of speciation and identify a crucial parameter that is a measure of the deviation from simple random sampling.
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