Unlike Tuljapurkar, we show that if the period is comparable to the generation time, one needs to consider life history as well since different species having different responses to changes in the environment.
Thus, previous studies on structural conservation (Stolle et al. 2011) and sequence similarity (Weinstock et al. 2006) based on absolute time should be re-evaluated regarding generation time and future studies need to account for it.
Long-term experimental studies aimed at discerning the evolutionary trajectories open to newly-formed hybrids under different types of selection are lacking, a knowledge gap due in part to the scarcity of hybrid eukaryotes that have the short generation time and ease of preservation needed to undertake experiments lasting hundreds of generations.
To argue the significant difference from prediction based on R = 1.40 with the identical margin of error and with varying CV of the generation time 0.41 (range: 0, 1), we ideally need 8665 (range: 7215, 15947) individuals at the power of 50% and 16121 (134296809680) individuals at the power of 80%.
As such, for an adaptive allelic variation to be maintained even at a constant non-synonymous substitution rate, species may need to decrease generation time or metabolic rate or to introduce effective error-correcting machinery.
Due to the long generation time of orchids, transformation may reduce the time needed to produce a desirable trait.
We attempted to estimate the value of Lcritical for the genomes analyzed in this manuscript, for which we needed data on generation time and estimate of effective population size Ne.
However, as the mutants do not need to be executed, the generation time is lower than the time demanded by mutation test.
At generation time, the application requests information from the EpiArk to retrieve and calculate the needed statistics.
The other value needed to calculate the rate at which the population can grow is the mean generation time (T).
