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, using the continuous time model proposed by Alison et al. (2009) [4]. We show that for any parameter λ0 (the rate at which mutations occur), for any α0 (the toxicity of...