Abstract
We identify a new natural coalescent structure, which we call the seed-bank coalescent, that describes the gene genealogy of populations under the influence of a strong seed-bank effect, where “dormant forms” of individuals (such as seeds or spores) may jump a significant number of generations before joining the “active” population. Mathematically, our seed-bank coalescent appears as scaling limit in a Wright–Fisher model with geometric seed-bank age structure if the average time of seed dormancy scales with the order of the total population size
Citation
Jochen Blath. Adrián González Casanova. Noemi Kurt. Maite Wilke-Berenguer. "A new coalescent for seed-bank models." Ann. Appl. Probab. 26 (2) 857 - 891, April 2016. https://doi.org/10.1214/15-AAP1106
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