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Subdivided populations where one deme plays a major role and the other demes play subordinate roles are studied. The models are appropriate for socially structured and age structured populations (including plant species with seed pools) as well as spatially subdivided populations. Concise sufficient criteria as well as tractable necessary and sufficient criteria assuring the maintenance of a polymorphism are given. The incorporation of temporal variation is included, and appropriate concepts of environmental heterogeneity are discussed.
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Supported in part by NIH Grant GM 10452-16 and NSF Grant MGS 7680624-A01. 44/2-A
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Karlin, S., Campbell, R. Polymorphism in subdivided populations characterised by a major and subordinate demes. Heredity 44, 151–168 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1980.13
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