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A criterion for stability-instability at fixation states involving an eigenvalue one with applications in population genetics

Theoretical Population Biology, 1982
Abstract An explicit general criterion for stability-instability at fixation states is provided when the leading eigenvalue of the gradient matrix is one. Several applications in population genetics are presented including cases of familial selection of dominant and recessive genes, models of preferential mating, incompatibility systems, and effects ...
Sabin Lessard, S Karlin
exaly   +4 more sources

POPULATION GENETICS, PLEIOTROPY, AND THE PREFERENTIAL FIXATION OF MUTATIONS DURING ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION

Evolution, 2010
Ongoing debate centers on whether certain types of mutations are fixed preferentially during adaptive evolution. Although there has been much discussion, no quantitative framework currently exists to test for these biases. Here, we describe a method for distinguishing between the two processes that likely account for biased rates of substitution ...
Matthew A. Streisfeld, M. Rausher
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Sharp Asymptotics for Fixation Times in Stochastic Population Genetics Models at Low Mutation Probabilities

Journal of Statistical Physics, 2003
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A. Cercueil, O. François
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Stochastic Processes in Population Genetics, with Special Reference to Distribution of Gene Frequencies and Probability of Gene Fixation

, 1970
The fundamental quantity which is used in population genetics to describe the genetic composition of a Mendelian population (i.e. reproductive community) is the gene frequency, or the proportion of a given gene in the population. Thus, a population is characterized by a set of gene frequencies.
M. Kimura
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

The Genetics of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation: Comparative Genomics of 14 Rhizobia Strains by Resolution of Protein Clusters [PDF]

open access: yesGenes, 2012
The symbiotic relationship between legumes and nitrogen fixing bacteria is critical for agriculture, as it may have profound impacts on lowering costs for farmers, on land sustainability, on soil quality, and on mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions ...
John Howieson   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

From Genomes to Populations: A Meta-analysis and Review of Fern Population Genetics

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PLANT SCIENCES, 2021
Premise of research. Numbering around 10,000 species, ferns are the second-largest group of vascular plants. Relatively little work, however, has focused on the population genetic processes driving fern evolution.
Jessie A. Pelosi, Emily B. Sessa
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Population Growth Combined with Wide Offspring Distributions can Increase Fixation Rate and Reduce Genetic Diversity

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2016
Genetic diversity grows with the population size in most neutral evolution models. Empirical evidence of large populations with limited diversity has been proposed to be due either to genetic bottlenecks or to selection. An alternative explanation is that the limited diversity is a result of rare reproduction events.
Alter, Idan, Louzoun, Yoram
openaire   +2 more sources

The genetic diversity and applicability assessment of autosomal STRs among Chinese populations by a novel Fixation Index and Nei’s index

Legal Medicine, 2018
The population-specific FST in STR loci of Chinese populations has not been focused on. Here, we genotyped 19 STRs in 530 unrelated healthy individuals of Xuzhou Han population, and collected data of 30,308 samples from 32 Hans and 50 minorities nationwide.
Caiyong Yin   +7 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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