The birth process with immigration, and the genealogical structure of large populations

J Math Biol. 1987;25(2):161-8. doi: 10.1007/BF00276387.

Abstract

This paper studies a version of the birth and immigration process in which families are followed in the order of their appearance. This age structure is related to a number of results from population genetics, in particular the genealogical structure of the infinitely-many neutral alleles model. The asymptotic behavior of this genealogy is an easy consequence of the structure of the age-ordered family size process.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Biometry
  • Birth Rate*
  • Emigration and Immigration*
  • Family
  • Genetics, Population*
  • Humans
  • Models, Genetic
  • Stochastic Processes