This paper is available on arxiv under CC 4.0 license. Authors: (1) Vianney Brouard, ENS de Lyon, UMPA, CNRS UMR 5669, 46 All´ee d’Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France; E-mail: vianney.brouard@ens-lyon.f. Table of Links Abstract & Introduction and presentation of the model Main results and biological interpretation First-order asymptotics of the mutant sub-populations for an infinite mono-directional grap First-order asymptotics of the mutant sub-populations for a general finite trait space (Theorem 2.1) Convergence for the stochastic exponents (Theorem 2.2) Acknowledgements & References Acknowledgements The author would like to thank H´el`ene Leman for inspiring and helpful discussions and feedback. References [1] Guillaume Achaz. Frequency spectrum neutrality tests: one for all and all for one. Genetics, 183(1):249–258, 2009. [2] Jochen Blath, Tobias Paul, and Andr´as T´obi´as. A stochastic adaptive dynamics model for bacterial populations with mutation, dormancy and transfer. 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