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Convergence to equilibrium of the two locus additive viability model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Samuel Karlin
Affiliation:
Stanford University
Marcus W. Feldman
Affiliation:
Stanford University

Extract

Consider a deterministic diploid population and a character determined by two loci with alleles A, a at the first and B, b at the second. When the effects of the alleles at each of the two loci on the relative fitnesses of the genotypes are additive, the selection matrix may be written

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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1970 

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