Mathematics of Genetic Diversity
Mathematics of Genetic Diversity
J. F. C. Kingman
January 1987
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This book draws together some mathematical ideas that are useful in population genetics, concentrating on a few aspects which are both biologically relevant and mathematically interesting.
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January 1987Paperback
9780898711660
77 pages
252 × 172 × 8 mm
0.154kg
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Table of Contents
- The Problem: Why Mathematics?
- Genes and Their Inheritance, Selection, Mutation
- Survival of the Fittest: Balanced Polymorphisms, Multi-Locus Selection, Balance Between Selection and Mutation, The House of Cards, The Diploid House of Cards, The Resistance of Polymorphisms to Mutation
- The Neutral Alternative: Evolution in the Absence of Selection, A General Model for Mutation in Finite Populations, The Random Walk Case, The Frequency Spectrum, The Ewens Sampling Formula, The Poisson-Dirichlet Distribution, Partition Structures, Testing Neutrality
- Selection in Finite Populations: Deleterious Mutants, The Wright-Fisher Model, Wright's Formula, The Infinite Alleles Limit.
