Paul Banse, Juliette Luiselli, David P Parsons, Théotime Grohens, Marco Foley, Leonardo Trujillo, Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas, Carole Knibbe, Guillaume Beslon
While chromosomal rearrangements are ubiquitous in all domains of life, very little is known about their evolutionary significance, mostly because, apart from a few specifically studied and well-documented mechanisms (interaction with recombination, gene duplication, etc.), very few models take them into account. As a consequence, we lack a general theory to account for their direct and indirect contributions to evolution. Here, we propose Aevol, a forward-in-time simulation platform specifically dedicated to unravelling the evolutionary significance of chromosomal rearrangements (CR) compared to local mutations (LM)...
December 11, 2023: Molecular Ecology