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Genealogy of a Wright Fisher model with strong seed bank component

Probability 2014-03-13 v1 Populations and Evolution

Abstract

We investigate the behaviour of the genealogy of a Wright-Fisher population model under the influence of a strong seed-bank effect. More precisely, we consider a simple seed-bank age distribution with two atoms, leading to either classical or long genealogical jumps (the latter modeling the effect of seed-dormancy). We assume that the length of these long jumps scales like a power NβN^\beta of the original population size NN, thus giving rise to a `strong' seed-bank effect. For a certain range of β\beta, we prove that the ancestral process of a sample of nn individuals converges under a non-classical time-scaling to Kingman's nn-coalescent. Further, for a wider range of parameters, we analyze the time to the most recent common ancestor of two individuals analytically and by simulation.

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@article{arxiv.1403.2925,
  title  = {Genealogy of a Wright Fisher model with strong seed bank component},
  author = {Jochen Blath and Bjarki Eldon and Adrián González Casanova and Noemi Kurt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.2925},
  year   = {2014}
}

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16 pages, 4 figures