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Looking backwards in time in the Moran model in population genetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Peter Clifford*
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Aidan Sudbury*
Affiliation:
Monash University
*
Postal address: Mathematical Institute, 24–29 St. Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LB, England.
∗∗Postal address: Department of Mathematics, Monash University, Clayton, Vic 3168, Australia.

Abstract

The Moran model in population genetics may also be regarded as an invasion process (or voter model) on the complete n-graph. Tracing lines of ancestry is equivalent to studying the dual process. Using this technique certain results concerning lines of ancestry can be derived very rapidly.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1985 

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