A unified treatment of the probability of fixation when population size and the strength of selection change over time

Genetics

Volumn 188, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 907-913

  Waxman, D ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHANGE THEORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIXATION PROBABILITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MATING; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY SAMPLE;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; SELECTION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80051511547     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.129288     Document Type: Article

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