Audiffren, Julien; Pardoux, Etienne - In: Stochastic Processes and their Applications 123 (2013) 6, pp. 2370-2397
We consider the accumulation of deleterious mutations in an asexual population, a phenomenon known as Muller’s ratchet … mutations occur), for any α>0 (the toxicity of the mutations) and for any size N>0 of the population, the ratchet clicks a.s. in … finite time. That is to say the minimum number of deleterious mutations in the population goes to infinity a.s. …