Substitution times for mutant nucleotides
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 19 (A) , 59-70
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3213550
Abstract
It is shown that, for one model of genetic evolution, the times at which mutations at nucleotide sites become fixed in a population tend to cluster together rather than behave as a Poisson process.Keywords
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