Some statistical improvements for estimating population size and mutation rate from segregating sites in DNA sequences

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 235-247

  Klein, Etienne K ^a   Austerlitz, Frédéric ^a   Larédo, Catherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODEL; MUTANT; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MUTATION; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION GENETICS;

MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 0033150623     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.1998.1401     Document Type: Article

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