Muller's Ratchet

This project is to concerned with a finite population of asexual individuals that are are subject to deleterious mutations. The population undergoes an irreversible process known as Muller's ratchet, where the class of individuals with the fewest number of mutations is lost due to genetic drift.

The aim of the project is to investigate current developments in the literature and numerically simulate the behaviour of a population.

The project will require the learning and application of a suitable programming language.

Contact Dr. David Waxman for more details. (D.Waxman@sussex.ac.uk)

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