On the genealogy of populations: Trees, branches and offspring

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn , Issue 7, 2005, Pages 176-194

  Serva, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Evolutionary and comparative genomics (theory); Population dynamics (theory)

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844508134     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2005/07/P07011     Document Type: Article

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