Diffusion Approximation of a Multilocus Model with Assortative Mating
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Diffusion approximation of a multilocus model with assortative mating
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Electronic Journal of Probability
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1083-6489
DOI: 10.1214/ejp.v16-932