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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	32
Metacommunities, fitness and gradual evolution	28
Pneumococcus and the stress-gradient hypothesis: A trade-off links	23
The mutation process on the ancestral line under selection	17
Demographic inference for spatially heterogeneous populations using long shared haplotypes	13
Extinction threshold and large population limit of a plant metapopulation model with recurrent extinction events and a seed bank component	13
A Wright–Fisher graph model and the impact of directional selection on genetic variation	13
Model of two competing populations in two habitats with migration: Application to optimal marine protected area size	12
Editorial Board	11
Interconnection between density-regulation and stability in competitive ecological network	9
Improving the realism of neutral ecological models by incorporating transient dynamics with temporal changes in community size	8
Selection on age-specific survival: Constant versus fluctuating environment	8
Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction	8
Coalescence and sampling distributions for Feller diffusions	7
The coalescent in finite populations with arbitrary, fixed structure	7
Editorial Board	7
A compendium of covariances and correlation coefficients of coalescent tree properties	7
Limits to selection on standing variation in an asexual population	6
Model of neo-Malthusian population anticipating future changes in resources	6
Joint effect of changing selection and demography on the site frequency spectrum	6
Editorial Board	5
Estimating the Lambda measure in multiple-merger coalescents	5
The interplay of dormancy and transfer in bacterial populations: Invasion, fixation and coexistence regimes	5
The 2022 Feldman Prize	5
On the connections between the spatial Lambda–Fleming–Viot model and other processes for analysing geo-referenced genetic data	5

Determining the most recent common ancestor in a finite linear habitat with asymmetric dispersal	5
Improving pest monitoring networks using a simulation-based approach to contribute to pesticide reduction	5
Parentage exclusion of close relatives in haplodiploid species	5
The shirker’s dilemma and the prospect of cooperation in large groups	5
Dynamics of SIR model with heterogeneous response to intervention policy	4
Total biomass of a single population in two-patch environments	4
Disbandment rules that most facilitate the evolution of cooperation	4
Bifurcations and hydra effects in Bazykin’s predator–prey model	4
Patterns of spawning and settlement of reef fishes as strategic responses to post-settlement competition	4
The grapheme-valued Wright–Fisher diffusion with mutation	4
Modeling temporal dynamics of genetic diversity in stage-structured plant populations with reference to demographic genetic structure	4
On the sign of the average effect of an allele	4
A central limit theorem concerning uncertainty in estimates of individual admixture	4
Editorial Board	4
Selection, recombination, and the ancestral initiation graph	4
Evolution of trustfulness in the case where resources for cooperation are sometimes absent	4
A two-sex renewal model and its population projection	4
Rates of convergence in the two-island and isolation-with-migration models	4
Spatial invasion of cooperative parasites	4
The ancestral selection graph for a Λ-asymmetric Moran model	4
Editorial Board	4
One hundred years of influenza A evolution	3
Taylor’s law for exponentially growing local populations linked by migration	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Modeling and migration-based control of depopulation	3
Editorial Board	3
Evolution of spite versus evolution of altruism through a disbandment mechanism	3
Quantifying the impact of changes in effective population size and expression level on the rate of coding sequence evolution	3
Beyond fitness: The information imparted in population states by selection throughout lifecycles	3
Riding the waves from epidemic to endemic: Viral mutations, immunological change and policy responses	3
A time-since-infection model for populations with two pathogens	3
Variances and covariances of linear summary statistics of segregating sites	2
The role of spatial competitive interactions between trees in shaping forest patterns	2
Character displacement in the presence of multiple trait differences: Evolution of the storage effect in germination and growth	2
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
Effect of competition on emergent phases and phase transitions in competitive systems	2
Adaptation of a quantitative trait to a changing environment: New analytical insights on the asexual and infinitesimal sexual models	2
A model of the burglar alarm hypothesis of prey alarm calls	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
Cultural transmission, competition for prey, and the evolution of cooperative hunting	2
A nearly-neutral biallelic Moran model with biased mutation and linear and quadratic selection	2
Editorial Board	2
Editorial Board	2
A stochastic field theory for the evolution of quantitative traits in finite populations	2
The structured coalescent in the context of gene copy number variation	2

Effects of cultural transmission of surnaming decisions on the sex ratio at birth	2
Copuling population dynamics and diel migration patterns	1
Temporal variability can promote migration between habitats	1
Mean-field interacting multi-type birth–death processes with a view to applications in phylodynamics	1
Species coexistence as an emergent effect of interacting mechanisms	1
A hidden Markov model to estimate homozygous-by-descent probabilities associated with nested layers of ancestors	1
Neutral diversity in experimental metapopulations	1
Corrigendum to “Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction” [Theoretical Population Biology 143 (2022) 30–45]	1
Editorial Board	1
Editorial Board	1
Male mating choices: The drive behind menopause?	1
Muller’s ratchet in a near-critical regime: Tournament versus fitness proportional selection	1
Editorial Board	1
The best of both worlds: Combining population genetic and quantitative genetic models	1
The expected sample allele frequencies from populations of changing size via orthogonal polynomials	1
Evolution with recombination as Gibbs sampling	1
Application of a Markovian ancestral model to the temporal and spatial dynamics of cultural evolution on a population network	1
Indirect interaction between an endemic and an invading pathogen: A case study of Plasmodium and Usutu virus dynamics in a shared bird host population	1
Editorial Board	1
The impact of simultaneous infections on phage-host ecology	1
Distributions of cherries and pitchforks for the Ford model	1
Conformity and content-biased cultural transmission in the evolution of altruism	1
Decomposition of disparities in life expectancy with applications to administrative health claims and registry data	1
Aggregation unveiled: A sequential modelling approach to bark beetle outbreaks	1
Biographical sketch: Freddy Bugge Christiansen	1
Amitosis as a strategy of cell division—Insight from the proliferation of Tetrahymena thermophila macronuclei	1
Continuous irregular dynamics with multiple neutral trajectories permit species coexistence in competitive communities	1
Editorial Board	1
Exploring artificial habitat fragmentation to control invasion by infectious wildlife diseases	1
Evolution of delayed dispersal with group size effect and population dynamics	1