Extinction probabilities and stationary distributions of mobile genetic elements in prokaryotes: the birth-death-diversification model

DOI10.1016/J.TPB.2015.09.001MaRDI QIDQ304427zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nicole E. Drakos, Lindi M. Wahl

Publication date 25 August 2016

Published in Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2015.09.001

zbMATH Keywords

Markov chainbranching processesextinction probabilityextinction timesmobile genetic elementsmobile promoters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Problems related to evolution (92D15) Applications of branching processes (60J85)

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• A branching process model for the evolution of transposable elements
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• Estimating the fitness effect of an insertion sequence
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