Isolation by distance in a quantitative trait.

Abstract excerpt

Random genetic drift in a quantitative character is modeled for a population with a continuous spatial distribution in an infinite habitat of one or two dimensions. The analysis extends Wright's concept of neighborhood size to spatially autocorrelated sampling variation in the expected phenotype at different locations. Weak stabilizing selection is assumed to operate toward the same optimum phenotype in every...

Topics

• Gene Frequency
• Genetic Variation
• Mathematics
• Models, Genetic