Sampling theory for neutral alleles in a varying environment.

doi:10.1098/rstb.1994.0079

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Sampling theory for neutral alleles in a varying environment.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 29 Jun 1994

Griffiths R C, Tavaré S

Abstract excerpt

We develop a sampling theory for genes sampled from a population evolving with deterministically varying size. We use a coalescent approach to provide recursions for the probabilities of particular sample configurations, and describe a Monte Carlo method by which the solutions to such recursions...

Topics

Alleles
Biological Evolution
Environment
Genes
Models, Genetic
Models, Statistical
Mutation
Probability

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