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The expansion of deleted mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) molecules has been linked to ageing, particularly in skeletal muscle fibres; its mechanism has remained unclear for three decades. Previous accounts assigned a replicative advantage to the deletions, but there is evidence that cells can, instead, selectively remove defective mtDNA. We present a spatial model that, without a replicative advantage, but instead through a combination of enhanced density for mutants and noise, produces a wave of expanding mutations with wave speed consistent with experimental data, unlike a standard model based on replicative advantage. We provide a formula that predicts that the wave speed drops with copy number, in agreement with experimental data. Crucially, our model yields travelling waves of mutants even if mutants are preferentially eliminated. Justified by this exemplar of how noise, density and spatial structure affect muscle ageing, we introduce the mechanism of stochastic survival of the densest, an alternative to replicative advantage, that may underpin other phenomena, like the evolution of altruism.
Levy flights in the space of mutations model time evolution of bacterial DNA. Parameters in the model are adjusted in order to fit observations coming from the Long Time Evolution Experiment with E. Coli.
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Data from a long time evolution experiment with Escherichia Coli and from a large study on copy number variations in subjects with european ancestry are analyzed in order to argue that mutations can be described as Levy flights in the mutation space.