Likelihood analysis of ongoing gene flow and historical association

Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 44-50

  Nielsen, Rasmus ^a,b   Slatkin, Montgomery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalescence theory; Gene flow; Likelihood ratio tests; Maximum likelihood; Population subdivision; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE FLOW; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; MIGRATION; POPULATION DIVERGENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034124688     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb00006.x     Document Type: Article

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