On the meaning and existence of an effective population size

Genetics

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1061-1070

  Sjodin P ^a   Kaj, I ^b   Krone, S ^c   Lascoux, M ^a   Nordborg, M ^d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MIGRATION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETICS, POPULATION; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 15544374420     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.026799     Document Type: Article

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