
doi: 10.1007/bf02477021
pmid: 5027633
A bisexual multiple branching process is studied. Consider a population with respect to three genotypes in both the female and male populations and let $$X(n) = \left\langle {X_1 (n), X_2 (n), X_3 (n)} \right\rangle and Y(n) = \left\langle {Y_1 (n), Y_2 (n), Y_3 (n)} \right\rangle$$ be random vectors giving the number of females and males (respectively) of each genotype in generationn. The mating of females and males is accommodated in the model withZ ij (n) representing the number of females of theith genotype mated with a male of thejth genotype in generationn. The mating system is such that a female may be mated to only one male but a male may be mated with more than one female. By arranging the nine random variablesZ ij (n),i, j=1, 2, 3, in a 1×9, vectorZ(n) it is shown that under certain conditions there is a positive constant ϱ such that when ϱ>1 the vectorsZ n /ρn,X n /ρn andY n /ρn converge almost surely asn→∞ to random vectors with fixed directions. The paper is divided into four sections. In section 1 the model is described in detail and its potential applications to population genetics are discussed. In section 2, the generating function of the transition probabilities of theZ-process are derived. Section3 is devoted to the study of the limiting behavior of the first and second moments of theZ-process, and in section4 the results of section3 are utilized to study the behavior of the random vectorsZ(n),X(n) andY(n) asn→∞.
Male, Population dynamics (general), Genetics, Population, Reproduction, Applications of branching processes, Female, Models, Biological, Mathematics
Male, Population dynamics (general), Genetics, Population, Reproduction, Applications of branching processes, Female, Models, Biological, Mathematics
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