Genetic Composition of Supercritical Branching Populations: Acknowledgements & References

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• Abstract & Introduction and presentation of the model
• Main results and biological interpretation
• First-order asymptotics of the mutant sub-populations for an infinite mono-directional grap
• First-order asymptotics of the mutant sub-populations for a general finite trait space (Theorem 2.1)
• Convergence for the stochastic exponents (Theorem 2.2)
• Acknowledgements & References

Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank H´el`ene Leman for inspiring and helpful discussions and feedback.

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