The extinction probability of descendants in bisexual models of fixed population size
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 28 (03) , 489-502
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021900200042352
Abstract
In this paper exchangeable bisexual models with fixed population size and non-overlapping generations are introduced. Each generation consists of N pairs of individuals. The pairs of a generation have altogether 2N children. These individuals form randomly the N pairs of the next generation. The extinction probability of the descendants of a fixed number of pairs of generation 0 is discussed. Under suitable conditions it can be approximately described by the extinction probability of a Galton–Watson process, if the population size is large. Special examples are a bisexual Wright–Fisher model and models with a uniformly bounded number of children of a pair.Keywords
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