On the length distribution of external branches in coalescence trees: Genetic diversity within species

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 245-252

  Caliebe, Amke ^a   Neininger, Ralph ^b   Krawczak, Michael ^a   Rösler, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coalescent; External branch; Genetic diversity; Mutation; Neutral evolution; Uniqueness; Weak convergence

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; COALESCENCE; EVOLUTION; MUTATION; RELATEDNESS; ZINC;

ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GERMANY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE;

GERMANY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34547735453     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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