The distribution of the coalescence time and the number of pairwise nucleotide differences in the “isolation with migration†model

Hilde M. Wilkinson-Herbots

Theoretical Population Biology, 2008, vol. 73, issue 2, 277-288

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the “isolation with migration†model, where a panmictic ancestral population gave rise to a symmetric n-island model, time τ ago. Explicit analytical expressions are derived for the probability density function of the coalescence time of a pair of genes sampled at random from the same subpopulation or from different subpopulations, and for the probability distribution of the number of pairwise nucleotide differences.

Keywords: Coalescent; Pairwise differences; Population structure; Isolation; Migration; Population divergence; Maximum-likelihood estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2007.11.001

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