Alternatives to the Wright-Fisher model: The robustness of mitochondrial Eve dating

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 165-172

  Cyran, Krzysztof A ^a   Kimmel, Marek ^a,b  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching processes genealogy; Coalescence distribution; Computer simulations; MtEve dating; Neanderthal mtDNA; O'Connell model; Wright Fisher model

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

COALESCENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; FOSSIL RECORD; GENEALOGY; LIMIT ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NEANDERTHAL; PALEONTOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHRONOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HOMINID; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; MUTATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CHRONOLOGY AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77956876510     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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