Extinction Time and Age of an Allele in a Large Finite Population

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 311-318

  Van Herwaarden, Onno A ^a   Van Der Wal, Nathalie J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Extinction and fixation time; Fokker Planck equation; Genetic drift; Singular perturbations; Unlikely exit

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALLELE; EXTINCTION; GENETIC DRIFT;

ALGORITHM; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036582076     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.2002.1576     Document Type: Article

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