Fig. 14

Comparison of sampling made by sex and by asex in the multi-locus diploid model for different standard deviations of the initial fitness distribution. The simulation conditions are as described in Appendix Fig. 13, except that now the population size is fixed (N=2000) and the standard deviation of the fitness values, σ, varies. This figure shows that as σ increases, P decreases rapidly in the asexual population to 0.52−0.63, while in the sexual population it decreases slowly in an apparently linear fashion. The maximum difference between P in the sex and asex cases is for σ of approximately 0.3−0.4