Mutations as Levy flights
Abstract Data from a long time evolution experiment with Escherichia Coli and from a large study on copy number variations in subjects with European ancestry are analyzed in order to argue that mutations can be described as Levy flights in the mutation space. These Levy flights have at least two com...
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doaj-8a0bb5ed6bee48dd81b75449ca296d622021-05-11T14:56:39ZengNature Publishing GroupScientific Reports2045-23222021-05-011111810.1038/s41598-021-88012-1Mutations as Levy flightsDario A. Leon0Augusto Gonzalez1University of Modena & Reggio EmiliaInstitute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and PhysicsAbstract Data from a long time evolution experiment with Escherichia Coli and from a large study on copy number variations in subjects with European ancestry are analyzed in order to argue that mutations can be described as Levy flights in the mutation space. These Levy flights have at least two components: random single-base substitutions and large DNA rearrangements. From the data, we get estimations for the time rates of both events and the size distribution function of large rearrangements.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88012-1 |
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Abstract Data from a long time evolution experiment with Escherichia Coli and from a large study on copy number variations in subjects with European ancestry are analyzed in order to argue that mutations can be described as Levy flights in the mutation space. These Levy flights have at least two components: random single-base substitutions and large DNA rearrangements. From the data, we get estimations for the time rates of both events and the size distribution function of large rearrangements. |
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