TY - JOUR
T1 - Common Ancestor and Genetic Diversity in Penna Model
AU - Qiuhui Pan, Zhirui Wang, Zhen Wang & Mingfeng He
JO - Communications in Computational Physics
VL - 1
SP - 224
EP - 234
PY - 2010
DA - 2010/07
SN - 7
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.2009.09.066
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7626.html
KW - 
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">The characteristic of individual is described by the Penna model. Based on
information entropy and the Penna model we define the entropy in the Penna model
to discuss common ancestors and genetic diversity for two reproduction modes with
and without mutation. About the problem of common ancestor, we find that all living
individuals at any time step have a set of common ancestors which belongs to different
times. They have the most recent common ancestor and earlier common ancestors.
The analysis of genetic diversity shows that the complexity of ecosystems is caused by
mutations and there is no contribution of sexual reproduction to conserving genetic
diversity at long time scales. Moreover, in stable environment genetic diversity in
asexual reproduction mode is higher than that in the sexual case.</p>