The average frequency of private alleles in a partially isolated population (Q1062937): Difference between revisions

An analytic model is developed to explore the relationship between gene flow, selection, and genetic drift. We assume that a single copy of a mutant allele appears in a finite, partially isolated population and allow for the effects of immigration, genic selection, and mutation on the frequency of the mutant. Our concern is with the distribution of the mutant's frequency before it either is lost from the population or emigrates.