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This paper presents the exact analytical solution, valid for all generations and initial conditions, for the frequency distribution of haploids with infinite-sites genome carrying a given number of mutations in a population evolving deterministically on a truncated fitness landscape. This landscape is a generalization of the single sharp peak one, widely used in quasispecies theory, although here there are no reverse mutations.
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The author acknowledges J. F. Fontanari for critically reading the manuscript and the Brazilian agency FAPESP for financial support. This work was developed while the author was in the Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
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Maia, L. The dynamical way to mutation-selection balance of an infinite population evolving on a truncated fitness landscape. J. Math. Biol. 51, 114–122 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-005-0327-5
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