FIG. 3.
Reduction in time to fixation of a double mutant through recombination as a function of different population sizes and selection strengths. (A) Recombination has a significant effect for a population size of 104 and intermediate selection strengths. However, at smaller population sizes, the effect is dramatically reduced. The following parameters were used: f = 0.75 and r = 0.5. (B) Using smaller parameters (f = 0.25 and r = 0.1) results in an overall decrease of the beneficial effect of recombination. In all simulations, the mutation rate was μ = 3 × 10−5 per base pair.