The distribution of the coalescence time and the number of pairwise nucleotide differences in the "isolation with migration" model

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 277-288

  Wilkinson Herbots, Hilde M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coalescent; Isolation; Maximum likelihood estimation; Migration; Pairwise differences; Population divergence; Population structure

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; DIVERGENCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MIGRATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 39149111906     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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