Corridors for migration between large subdivided populations, and the structured coalescent

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 412-420

  Wakeley, John ^a   Lessard, Sabin ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coalescence; Migration; Population structure

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; MIGRATION; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SUBPOPULATION;

ARTICLE; POPULATION GENETICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 33845518484     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2006.06.001     Document Type: Article

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