Can one hear the shape of a population history?

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 100, Issue , 2015, Pages 26-38

  Kim, Junhyong ^a   Mossel, Elchanan ^b   Rácz, Miklós Z ^b   Ross, Nathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coalescent; Estimation; Population size

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE;

EID: 84920178681     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2014.12.002     Document Type: Article

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