A simple method of removing the effect of a bottleneck and unequal population sizes on pairwise genetic distances

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1438, 2000, Pages 81-87

  Gaggiotti, Oscar E ^a   Excoffier, Laurent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bottleneck effect; Coalescent; Genetic distances; Genetic drift; Monte carlo simulations; Newton Raphson method

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; FEMALE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMAN; MALE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0034614340     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.0970     Document Type: Article

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