Universality Classes of Interaction Structures for NK Fitness Landscapes

@article{Hwang2017UniversalityCO,
  title={Universality Classes of Interaction Structures for NK Fitness Landscapes},
  author={Sungmin Hwang and Benjamin Schmiegelt and Luca Ferretti and Joachim H A Krug},
  journal={Journal of Statistical Physics},
  year={2017},
  volume={172},
  pages={226-278}
}
Kauffman’s NK-model is a paradigmatic example of a class of stochastic models of genotypic fitness landscapes that aim to capture generic features of epistatic interactions in multilocus systems. Genotypes are represented as sequences of L binary loci. The fitness assigned to a genotype is a sum of contributions, each of which is a random function defined on a subset of $$k \le L$$k≤L loci. These subsets or neighborhoods determine the genetic interactions of the model. Whereas earlier work on… 
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A distinction between easy landscapes of traditional theory where local fitness peaks can be found in a moderate number of steps, and hard landscapes where finding local optima requires an infeasible amount of time is introduced.
Accessibility percolation in random fitness landscapes 3
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This chapter reviews studies of accessibility percolation that use probabilistic fitness landscape models to explore the emergence of such paths as a function of the initial fitness, the parameters of the landscape or the structure of the genotype graph and discusses their implications for the predictability of evolutionary processes.
Global epistasis emerges from a generic model of a complex trait
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Accessibility percolation in random fitness landscapes
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This chapter reviews studies of accessibility percolation that use probabilistic fitness landscape models to explore the emergence of paths as a function of the initial fitness, the parameters of the landscape or the structure of the genotype graph and discusses their implications for the predictability of evolutionary processes.
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