IMa2p--parallel MCMC and inference of ancient demography under the Isolation with migration (IM) model

Arun Sethuraman1, Jody Hey1

  • 1Center for Computational Genetics and Genomics, Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA.

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