A mathematical study of the founder principle of evolutionary genetics
- 1 June 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 3 (01) , 115-128
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021900200113993
Abstract
Some comparisons are made between various characteristics of the genetic structures of populations of the same size and age, which have (i) evolved from a small founder population, and (ii) evolved from a population which has been of constant size throughout the period considered.Keywords
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