2 papers
q-bio.PE2010
Selective sweeps for recessive alleles and for other modes of dominance
Greg Ewing, Joachim Hermisson, Peter Pfaffelhuber +1
A selective sweep describes the reduction of linked genetic variation due to strong positive selection. If s is the fitness advantage of a homozygote for the beneficial allele and…
math.PR2010
The Aldous-Shields model revisited (with application to cellular ageing)
Katharina Best, Peter Pfaffelhuber
In Aldous and Shields (1988), a model for a rooted, growing random binary tree was presented. For some c>0, an external vertex splits at rate c^(-i) (and becomes internal) if its d…