Probability of fixation under weak selection: A branching process unifying approach

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 419-441

  Lambert, Amaury ^a,b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

Continuous state branching process; Demographic stochasticity; Diffusion theory; Fixation probability; Mean variance trade off; Mutant allele; Weak selection

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DEMOGRAPHY; FIXATION; GROWTH RATE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PROBABILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; SELECTION (GENETICS); STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33646136880     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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