Geographically invariant properties
Takeo Maruyama
In chapter 4 we dealt with the integration of various quantities along sample paths. There we assumed random mating. Here [chapter 10] we will show that some of those integrations are independent of the population structure, even of structures much more general than those discussed in chapter 9. The invariant quantities are the fixation probability of a mutant gene with additive effects, the total number of heterozygotes counted during those generations when there is a given gene frequency for the whole population, and the sum of heterozygosity during the entire process. The higher moments of these quantities are also invariant.
Since the mathematics dealing with structured populations is not well established, I will present some of the invariant properties in a more elementary way. In section 10.1, the invariance of the sum of heterozygosity is shown for a discrete time model, and in section 10.2 a proof is given for the Moran model of continuous time. And in later sections, we will deal with diffusion equations.
Fonte: Maruyama, T. 1977. Stochastic problems in population genetics. Berlim, Springer.
