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The hierarchical island model revisited

Genetics Selection Evolution volume 32, Article number: 395 (2000) Cite this article

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Formulae were derived for the genetic differentiation between populations within a metapopulation (F SM ), and between metapopulations (F MT ) as functions of migration and mutation rates, size and number of populations and metapopulations. We show that F MT = 1/(1 + 4N e m), where N e is the effective size of a metapopulation, and where the migration rate between metapopulations is m. The formulae for F MT and F SM were more general than previously proposed since we have relaxed some previously made hypotheses and we included the effect of the mutation rate. Using our formula, some unexpected result of estimation of gene flow, previously obtained, can be explained readily.

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  1. Unité de malherbologie et d'agronomie, Institut national de la recherche agronomique, BV 1540, 17 rue Sully, 21000, Dijon, France

    Yves Vigouroux

  2. Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, CRBPO, 55 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France

    Denis Couvet

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Vigouroux, Y., Couvet, D. The hierarchical island model revisited. Genet Sel Evol 32, 395 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-32-4-395

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Genetics Selection Evolution

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