TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ewens,Warren J.
TI  - Mathematical population genetics
T2  - Interdisciplinary applied mathematics
SN  - 9780387201917
U1  - 576.580151 23
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Springer-Verlag
KW  - Population genetics
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Population
KW  - Mathematical models
N1  - v. 1. Theoretical introduction; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Historical background --
2. Technicalities and generalizations --
3. Discrete stochastic models --
4. Diffusion theory --
5. Applications of diffusion theory --
6. Two loci --
7. Many loci --
8. Further considerations --
9. Molecular population genetics: intorduction --
10. Looking backward in time: the coalescent --
11. Looking backward: testing the neutral theory --
12. Looking backward in time: population and species comparisons --
Appendices --
References --
Author index --
Subject index
N2  - Population genetics occupies a central role in a number of important biological and social undertakings. It is fundamental to our understanding of evolutionary processes, of plant and animal breeding programs, and of various diseases of particular importance to mankind. This is the first of a planned two-volume work discussing the mathematical aspects of population genetics, with an emphasis on the evolutionary theory. This first volume draws heavily from the author's classic 1979 edition since the material in that edition may be taken, to a large extent, as introductory to the contemporary theory. It has been revised and expanded to include recent topics that follow naturally from the treatment in the earlier edition, for example, the theory of molecular population genetics and coalescent theory
ER  -