To: maro
For a diploid population the drift toward equilibrium is either to 1 or 0 for a single allele.
To: Nebullis; edsheppa
That's not the same as the a priori probability of the allele. Here's an excerpt from a book I have never gotten around to reading, "Molecular Evolution" by Wen-Hsiung Li: "We note that a new mutant arising as a single copy in a diploid population of size N has an initial frequency of 1/2N....For a neutral mutation, P [the probability of fixation] = 1/2N." Pp. 47-48.
779 posted on
04/15/2002 9:16:54 PM PDT by
maro
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