An explicit transition density expansion for a multi-allelic Wright-Fisher diffusion with general diploid selection

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-14

  Steinrücken, Matthias ^a   Wang, Y X Rachel ^a   Song, Yun S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

General diploid selection; Multiple alleles; Partial differential equation; Spectral decomposition; Transition density function; Wright Fisher diffusion

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; EIGENVALUE; MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION GENETICS; SELECTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DIPLOIDY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALLELES; DIPLOIDY; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84869886098     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2012.10.006     Document Type: Article

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