Estimation of effective population sizes from data on genetic markers

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1459, 2005, Pages 1395-1409

  Wang, Jinliang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coalescent; Effective population size; Genetic drift; Genetic markers; Inbreeding

Indexed keywords

GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; INBREEDING; POPULATION SIZE;

EID: 31344454299     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1682     Document Type: Review

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