Section: New Results

An error threshold due to chromosomic rearrangements

Participants : Stephan Fischer, Guillaume Beslon, Carole Knibbe, Samuel Bernard.

Error threshold is a well known theory in evolutionary biology. However, the theory of error threshold only takes into account point mutation rate and states that this rate generates a maximum level of coding sequences in a given genome. Using aevol and mathematical formulations, we have shown other types of mutations are also likely to create error thresholds. In particular we have shown the chromosomic rearrangement (duplications and deletions) generate a very strong threshold.