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Selection, recombination, and the ancestral initiation graph

Frederic Alberti1, Carolin Herrmann2, Ellen Baake1

  • 1Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Postbox 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany.

Theoretical Population Biology
|September 14, 2021
PubMed

Keywords:
Ancestral initiation graphHitchhikingLinkage disequilibriumPopulation geneticsSelection–recombination differential equation

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