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Papers

(The median citation count of Theoretical Population Biology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Wright–Fisher graph model and the impact of directional selection on genetic variation	35
The mutation process on the ancestral line under selection	18
Metacommunities, fitness and gradual evolution	17
Pneumococcus and the stress-gradient hypothesis: A trade-off links	17
Extinction threshold and large population limit of a plant metapopulation model with recurrent extinction events and a seed bank component	14
Editorial Board	13
Editorial Board	11
Model of two competing populations in two habitats with migration: Application to optimal marine protected area size	11
Demographic inference for spatially heterogeneous populations using long shared haplotypes	11
Improving the realism of neutral ecological models by incorporating transient dynamics with temporal changes in community size	10
A compendium of covariances and correlation coefficients of coalescent tree properties	10
Selection on age-specific survival: Constant versus fluctuating environment	10
Interconnection between density-regulation and stability in competitive ecological network	10
Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction	8
Limits to selection on standing variation in an asexual population	8
The coalescent in finite populations with arbitrary, fixed structure	8
The TMRCA of general genealogies in populations with deterministically varying size	8
Editorial Board	7
Joint effect of changing selection and demography on the site frequency spectrum	7
Coalescence and sampling distributions for Feller diffusions	7
Editorial Board	7
Muller’s ratchet and gene duplication	6
Determining the most recent common ancestor in a finite linear habitat with asymmetric dispersal	6
The shirker’s dilemma and the prospect of cooperation in large groups	6
On the connections between the spatial Lambda–Fleming–Viot model and other processes for analysing geo-referenced genetic data	6

The 2022 Feldman Prize	6
Estimating the Lambda measure in multiple-merger coalescents	6
The distribution of the number of mutations in the genealogy of a sample from a single population	6
Parentage exclusion of close relatives in haplodiploid species	6
On the sign of the average effect of an allele	5
Total biomass of a single population in two-patch environments	5
Dynamics of SIR model with heterogeneous response to intervention policy	5
Patterns of spawning and settlement of reef fishes as strategic responses to post-settlement competition	5
Modeling temporal dynamics of genetic diversity in stage-structured plant populations with reference to demographic genetic structure	5
Disbandment rules that most facilitate the evolution of cooperation	5
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of anthelmintic resistance in soil-transmitted helminths	5
A central limit theorem concerning uncertainty in estimates of individual admixture	5
Taylor’s law for exponentially growing local populations linked by migration	5
A two-sex renewal model and its population projection	5
Rates of convergence in the two-island and isolation-with-migration models	5
Spatial invasion of cooperative parasites	5
The grapheme-valued Wright–Fisher diffusion with mutation	5
Editorial Board	5
Selection, recombination, and the ancestral initiation graph	4
Riding the waves from epidemic to endemic: Viral mutations, immunological change and policy responses	4
Editorial Board	4
Evolution of redirected help with stepping-stone dispersal	4
The ancestral selection graph for a Λ-asymmetric Moran model	4
Editorial Board	4
Evolution of trustfulness in the case where resources for cooperation are sometimes absent	4
Evolution of spite versus evolution of altruism through a disbandment mechanism	4
A time-since-infection model for populations with two pathogens	4
Effect of competition on emergent phases and phase transitions in competitive systems	3
Editorial Board	3
One hundred years of influenza A evolution	3
Quantifying the impact of changes in effective population size and expression level on the rate of coding sequence evolution	3
Gene-culture association and coevolution	3
Importance of environmental productivity and diet quality in intraguild predation	3
Variances and covariances of linear summary statistics of segregating sites	3
The role of spatial competitive interactions between trees in shaping forest patterns	3
Editorial Board	3
Identity-by-descent segments in large samples	3
Editorial Board	3
Beyond fitness: The information imparted in population states by selection throughout lifecycles	3
Modeling and migration-based control of depopulation	3
Mathematical bounds on r2	3
Cultural transmission, competition for prey, and the evolution of cooperative hunting	3
Using mathematical constraints to explain narrow ranges for allele-sharing dissimilarities	3
The Patterson-Price-Reich's rule of population structure analysis from genetic marker data	3
Adaptation of a quantitative trait to a changing environment: New analytical insights on the asexual and infinitesimal sexual models	3
Mathematical epidemiology for a later age	2
Bernoulli factories and duality in Wright–Fisher and Allen–Cahn models of population genetics	2
Mathematical model of rabies vaccination in the United States	2
Amitosis as a strategy of cell division—Insight from the proliferation of Tetrahymena thermophila macronuclei	2
Continuous irregular dynamics with multiple neutral trajectories permit species coexistence in competitive communities	2

Species coexistence as an emergent effect of interacting mechanisms	2
The expected sample allele frequencies from populations of changing size via orthogonal polynomials	2
Indirect interaction between an endemic and an invading pathogen: A case study of Plasmodium and Usutu virus dynamics in a shared bird host population	2
A stochastic field theory for the evolution of quantitative traits in finite populations	2
Neutral diversity in experimental metapopulations	2
The structured coalescent in the context of gene copy number variation	2
The best of both worlds: Combining population genetic and quantitative genetic models	2
Biographical sketch: Freddy Bugge Christiansen	2
A hidden Markov model to estimate homozygous-by-descent probabilities associated with nested layers of ancestors	2
Editorial Board	2
Large effects and the infinitesimal model	2
Stochastic viability in an island model with partial dispersal: Approximation by a diffusion process in the limit of a large number of islands	2
Evolution with recombination as Gibbs sampling	2
A mathematical framework for time-variant multi-state kinship modelling	2
Aggregation unveiled: A sequential modelling approach to bark beetle outbreaks	2
Application of a Markovian ancestral model to the temporal and spatial dynamics of cultural evolution on a population network	2
Evolution of delayed dispersal with group size effect and population dynamics	1
Copuling population dynamics and diel migration patterns	1
Decomposition of disparities in life expectancy with applications to administrative health claims and registry data	1
Temporal variability can promote migration between habitats	1
Spatial evolutionary public goods game theory applied to optimal resource allocation and defense strategies in herbaceous plants	1
Distributions of cherries and pitchforks for the Ford model	1
Evolutionary dynamics of dispersal and local adaptation in multi-resource landscapes	1
When can we reconstruct the ancestral state? A unified theory	1
Editorial Board	1
Male mating choices: The drive behind menopause?	1
Editorial Board	1
Corrigendum to “Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction” [Theoretical Population Biology 143 (2022) 30–45]	1
Conformity and content-biased cultural transmission in the evolution of altruism	1
Prevalence of social parasitism in ant populations: Modeling energetics, demography and space in the Polyergus/Formica system	1
Stochastic modeling of Dalbulus maidis, vector of maize diseases	1
A cultural evolutionary model of the interaction between parental beliefs and behaviors, with applications to vaccine hesitancy	1
A matrix-analytical sampling formula for time-homogeneous coalescent processes under the infinite sites mutation model	1
Editorial Board	1
Muller’s ratchet in a near-critical regime: Tournament versus fitness proportional selection	1
Editorial Board	1
The impact of simultaneous infections on phage-host ecology	1
Mean-field interacting multi-type birth–death processes with a view to applications in phylodynamics	1
An almost infinite sites model	1
Inclusive fitness and Hamilton’s rule in a stochastic environment	1
On multi-type Cannings models and multi-type exchangeable coalescents	1
Evolutionarily stable levels of aposematic defence in prey populations	1