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A generalized Morse index theory is used to study travelling waves in a natural selection-migration model for a diploid organism when the selective strength is weak.
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Conley, C., Fife, P. Critical manifolds, travelling waves, and an example from population genetics. J. Math. Biology 14, 159–176 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01832842
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