Intra-deme molecular diversity in spatially expanding populations

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 76-86

  Ray, Nicolas ^a,b   Currat, Mathias ^a,b   Excoffier, Laurent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Demographic expansion; Human evolution; Mismatch distribution; Mitochondrial DNA; Spatial expansion; Subdivided population

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FLOW; GENEALOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0037227366     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg009     Document Type: Article

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