Absorption and fixation times for neutral and quasi-neutral populations with density dependence

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 302-310

  Parsons, Todd L ^a   Quince, Christopher ^b   Plotkin, Joshua B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absorption; Allele; Asymptotic; Competition; Density dependent; Drift; Fixation; Logistic; Moran; Neutral; Stochastic; Wright Fisher

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CARRYING CAPACITY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; LOGISTICS; MORTALITY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; STOCHASTICITY;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICS;

ALLELES; GENETICS, POPULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 55949102358     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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