On the genealogy of populations: trees, branches and offspring

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2005/07/P07011zbMATH Open1459.92062arXivq-bio/0503036MaRDI QIDQ4968866FDOQ4968866

Authors: Maurizio Serva 

Publication date: 9 July 2019

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a neutral haploid population whose generations are not overlapping and whose size is large and constantly of $N$ individuals. Any generation is replaced by a new one and any individual has a single parent. We do not choose the stochastic rule which assigns the number of offsprings to any individual since results do not depend on the details of the dynamics, and, as a consequence, the model is parameter free. The genealogical tree is very complex, and distances between individuals (number of generations from the common ancestor) are distributed according to probability density which remains random in the thermodynamic limit (large population). We give a theoretical and numerical description of this distribution and we also consider the dynamical aspects of the problem describing the time evolution of the maximum and mean distances in a single population.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0503036

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zbMATH Keywords

population dynamics (theory)evolutionary and comparative genomics (theory)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Problems related to evolution (92D15) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27)

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