Coalescent process with fluctuating population size and its effective size

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-48

  Sano, Akinori ^a   Shimizu, Akinobu ^b   Iizuka, Masaru ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coalescent process; Effective population size; Fluctuating population size; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; MARKOV CHAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MODELING;

MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 0346433722     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2003.09.001     Document Type: Article

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