The ancestral process of long-range seed bank models

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DOI10.1239/JAP/1378401233zbMATH Open1301.92053arXiv1203.5202OpenAlexW2231820311WikidataQ110704480 ScholiaQ110704480MaRDI QIDQ2854078FDOQ2854078


Authors: Jochen Blath, Adrián González Casanova, N. Kurt, Dario Spanò Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 17 October 2013

Published in: Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a new model for seed banks, where direct ancestors of individuals may have lived in the near as well as the very far past. The classical Wright-Fisher model, as well as a seed bank model with bounded age distribution considered by Kaj, Krone and Lascoux (2001) are special cases of our model. We discern three parameter regimes of the seed bank age distribution, which lead to substantially different behaviour in terms of genetic variability, in particular with respect to fixation of types and time to the most recent common ancestor. We prove that for age distributions with finite mean, the ancestral process converges to a time-changed Kingman coalescent, while in the case of infinite mean, ancestral lineages might not merge at all with positive probability. Further, we present a construction of the forward in time process in equilibrium. The mathematical methods are based on renewal theory, the urn process introduced by Kaj et al., as well as on a paper by Hammond and Sheffield (2011).


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.5202




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