The mean and variance of the number of segregating sites since the last hitchhiking event

Journal of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-23

  Perlitz, Michael ^a   Stephan, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Catastrophic hitchhiking; Coalescent theory; Segregating sites

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MATHEMATICS; MUTATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DNA; DROSOPHILA; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031267307     PISSN: 03036812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002850050087     Document Type: Article

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