The coalescent effective size of age-structured populations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Sagitov, S; Jagers, P
• 署名单位: Chalmers University of Technology
• 刊物名称: ANNALS OF APPLIED PROBABILITY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1050-5164
• DOI: 10.1214/105051605000000223
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 1778-1797
• 关键词: markov-chains; CONVERGENCE; models; genetics

摘要

We establish convergence to the Kingman coalescent for a class of age-structured population models with time-constant population size. Time is discrete with unit called a year. Offspring numbers in a year may depend on mother's age.