Theoretical Population Genetics

✍ Scribed by J. S. Gale (auth.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1990
Tongue: English
Leaves: 427
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages iii-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Wright-Fisher, Moran and other models....Pages 12-55
On the description of changes in allele frequency....Pages 56-105
Survival of new mutations: branching processes....Pages 106-151
Probability of fixation: the more general case....Pages 152-193
Some notes on continuous approximations....Pages 194-212
Mean sojourn, absorption and fixation times....Pages 213-276
Introduction to probability distributions: probability flux....Pages 277-302
Stationary distributions: Frequency spectra....Pages 303-346
Diffusion methods....Pages 347-396
General comments and conclusions....Pages 397-402
Back Matter....Pages 403-417

✦ Subjects

Evolutionary Biology; Human Genetics

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