Environmental variation, fluctuating selection and genetic drift in subdivided populations

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 233-250

  Taylor, Jesse E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion approximation; Environmental variation; Fluctuating selection; Genetic drift; Island model; Levene model; Population subdivision

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FITNESS; GENETIC DRIFT; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SELECTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; HAPLOIDY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS;

GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOIDY; MARKOV CHAINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 52949144937     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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