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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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

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	19
Model of two competing populations in two habitats with migration: Application to optimal marine protected area size	18
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
Demographic inference for spatially heterogeneous populations using long shared haplotypes	12
Editorial Board	11
Metacommunities, fitness and gradual evolution	11
Selection on age-specific survival: Constant versus fluctuating environment	11
Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction	10
Improving the realism of neutral ecological models by incorporating transient dynamics with temporal changes in community size	10
The coalescent in finite populations with arbitrary, fixed structure	10
Interconnection between density-regulation and stability in competitive ecological network	10
The TMRCA of general genealogies in populations with deterministically varying size	9
Coalescence and sampling distributions for Feller diffusions	8
Editorial Board	8
A compendium of covariances and correlation coefficients of coalescent tree properties	8
Editorial Board	7
Limits to selection on standing variation in an asexual population	7
The distribution of the number of mutations in the genealogy of a sample from a single population	7
Joint effect of changing selection and demography on the site frequency spectrum	7
On the connections between the spatial Lambda–Fleming–Viot model and other processes for analysing geo-referenced genetic data	6
Muller’s ratchet and gene duplication	6
A two-sex renewal model and its population projection	6

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

Mathematical model of rabies vaccination in the United States	2
Bernoulli factories and duality in Wright–Fisher and Allen–Cahn models of population genetics	2
Corrigendum to “Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction” [Theoretical Population Biology 143 (2022) 30–45]	2
Large effects and the infinitesimal model	2
Decomposition of disparities in life expectancy with applications to administrative health claims and registry data	2
Biographical sketch: Freddy Bugge Christiansen	2
Amitosis as a strategy of cell division—Insight from the proliferation of Tetrahymena thermophila macronuclei	2
A hidden Markov model to estimate homozygous-by-descent probabilities associated with nested layers of ancestors	2
A stochastic field theory for the evolution of quantitative traits in finite populations	2
Aggregation unveiled: A sequential modelling approach to bark beetle outbreaks	2
Neutral diversity in experimental metapopulations	2
A mathematical framework for time-variant multi-state kinship modelling	2
The expected sample allele frequencies from populations of changing size via orthogonal polynomials	2
Evolution with recombination as Gibbs sampling	2
Continuous irregular dynamics with multiple neutral trajectories permit species coexistence in competitive communities	2
Application of a Markovian ancestral model to the temporal and spatial dynamics of cultural evolution on a population network	2
The structured coalescent in the context of gene copy number variation	2
Species coexistence as an emergent effect of interacting mechanisms	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
The best of both worlds: Combining population genetic and quantitative genetic models	2
Temporal variability can promote migration between habitats	1
Conformity and content-biased cultural transmission in the evolution of altruism	1
Copuling population dynamics and diel migration patterns	1
Stochastic modeling of Dalbulus maidis, vector of maize diseases	1
Evolutionary dynamics of dispersal and local adaptation in multi-resource landscapes	1
Evolutionarily stable levels of aposematic defence in prey populations	1
When can we reconstruct the ancestral state? A unified theory	1
Editorial Board	1
Male mating choices: The drive behind menopause?	1
Mean-field interacting multi-type birth–death processes with a view to applications in phylodynamics	1
Muller’s ratchet in a near-critical regime: Tournament versus fitness proportional selection	1
Spatial evolutionary public goods game theory applied to optimal resource allocation and defense strategies in herbaceous plants	1
Prevalence of social parasitism in ant populations: Modeling energetics, demography and space in the Polyergus/Formica system	1
An almost infinite sites model	1
A cultural evolutionary model of the interaction between parental beliefs and behaviors, with applications to vaccine hesitancy	1
Inclusive fitness and Hamilton’s rule in a stochastic environment	1
A matrix-analytical sampling formula for time-homogeneous coalescent processes under the infinite sites mutation model	1
Evolution of delayed dispersal with group size effect and population dynamics	1
Editorial Board	1
Editorial Board	1
A decomposition of a phylogenetically-informed distance between species assemblages into basal and terminal components	1
Success-biased social learning in a one-consumer, two-resource model	1
The impact of simultaneous infections on phage-host ecology	1
Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use	1
On multi-type Cannings models and multi-type exchangeable coalescents	1
Distributions of cherries and pitchforks for the Ford model	1
Editorial Board	1