THE COALESCENT IN 2 PARTIALLY ISOLATED DIFFUSION POPULATIONS
THE COALESCENT IN 2 PARTIALLY ISOLATED DIFFUSION POPULATIONS
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DOI:
10.1017/s0016672300027683
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发表时间:
1988-12-01
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
TAKAHATA, N
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作者:
TAKAHATA, N
The No coalescent of Kingman (1982 a,b) describes the family relationships among a sample of No individuals drawn from a panmictic species. It is a stochastic process resulting from No-1 independent random events (coalescences) at each of which n (2 .ltoreq. n .ltoreq. n0) ancestral lineages of a sample are descended from n-1 distinct ancestors for the first time. Here a similar genealogical process is studied for a species consisting of two populations with migration between them. The main interest is with the probability density of the time length between two successive coalescences and the spatial distribution of n-1 ancestral lineages over two populations when n to n-1 coalescence takes place. These are formulated based on a non-linear birth and death process with killing, and are used to derive several explicit formulae in selectively neutral population genetics models. To confirm and supplement the analytical results, a simulation method is proposed based on the underlying bivariate Markov chain. This method provides a general way for solving the present problem even when an analytical approach appears very difficult. It becomes clear that the effects of the present population structure are most conspicuous on 2 to 1 coalescence, with lesser extents on n to n-1 (3 .ltoreq. n) coalescence. This implies that in a more general model of population structure, the number of populations and the way in which a sample is drawn are important factors which determine than n0 coalescent.