Theoretical Population Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Theoretical Population Biology is 0. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Wright–Fisher graph model and the impact of directional selection on genetic variation31
Extinction threshold and large population limit of a plant metapopulation model with recurrent extinction events and a seed bank component25
Muller’s ratchet in a near-critical regime: Tournament versus fitness proportional selection20
The mutation process on the ancestral line under selection18
Mate guarding in primates arises due to partner scarcity, even if the father provides no paternal care at all13
Clade size distribution under neutral evolutionary models11
Hominin forager technology, food sharing, and diet breadth10
Limiting distribution of X-chromosomal coalescence times under first-cousin consanguineous mating10
Model of two competing populations in two habitats with migration: Application to optimal marine protected area size8
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Metacommunities, fitness and gradual evolution8
Character displacement in the presence of multiple trait differences: Evolution of the storage effect in germination and growth8
A central limit theorem concerning uncertainty in estimates of individual admixture7
Waiting times in a branching process model of colorectal cancer initiation7
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Pneumococcus and the stress-gradient hypothesis: A trade-off links 6
Evolutionary rescue via niche construction: Infrequent construction can prevent post-invasion extinction6
Copuling population dynamics and diel migration patterns6
Dynamics of SIR model with heterogeneous response to intervention policy6
A simple model and rules for the evolution of microbial mutualistic symbiosis with positive fitness feedbacks5
Cultural transmission, competition for prey, and the evolution of cooperative hunting5
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Demographic inference for spatially heterogeneous populations using long shared haplotypes5
A model of the burglar alarm hypothesis of prey alarm calls5
On random conformity bias in cultural transmission of polychotomous traits5
Stochastic offspring distributions amplify selection bias in mutation accumulation experiments5
Spatial invasion of cooperative parasites5
Drewnowski’s index to measure lifespan variation: Revisiting the Gini coefficient of the life table5
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Male mating choices: The drive behind menopause?4
Patterns of spawning and settlement of reef fishes as strategic responses to post-settlement competition4
The grapheme-valued Wright–Fisher diffusion with mutation4
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A mathematical framework for evo-devo dynamics4
Bifurcations and hydra effects in Bazykin’s predator–prey model4
Computing the probability of gene trees concordant with the species tree in the multispecies coalescent4
The Recombination Hotspot Paradox: Co-evolution between PRDM9 and its target sites4
Population models, mathematical epidemiology, and the COVID-19 pandemic4
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Evolution of trustfulness in the case where resources for cooperation are sometimes absent3
Taylor’s law for exponentially growing local populations linked by migration3
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The optimal momentum of population growth and decline3
The impact of dormancy on evolutionary branching3
Evolution of delayed dispersal with group size effect and population dynamics3
Effects of cultural transmission of surnaming decisions on the sex ratio at birth3
Bernoulli factories and duality in Wright–Fisher and Allen–Cahn models of population genetics3
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Mathematical epidemiology for a later age3
Interconnection between density-regulation and stability in competitive ecological network3
Improving the realism of neutral ecological models by incorporating transient dynamics with temporal changes in community size3
Selection on age-specific survival: Constant versus fluctuating environment3
Selection, recombination, and the ancestral initiation graph3
Joint identity among loci under mutation and regular inbreeding2
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Coalescent models derived from birth–death processes2
A compendium of covariances and correlation coefficients of coalescent tree properties2
The coalescent in finite populations with arbitrary, fixed structure2
Adaptive meiotic drive in selfing populations with heterozygote advantage2
Distributions of cherries and pitchforks for the Ford model2
The ancestral selection graph for a Λ-asymmetric Moran model2
Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction2
Expansion of error thresholds for the Moran model2
A stochastic field theory for the evolution of quantitative traits in finite populations2
The structured coalescent in the context of gene copy number variation1
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Coalescence and sampling distributions for Feller diffusions1
Variance and limiting distribution of coalescence times in a diploid model of a consanguineous population1
Latent mutations in the ancestries of alleles under selection1
Conformity and content-biased cultural transmission in the evolution of altruism1
Exploring artificial habitat fragmentation to control invasion by infectious wildlife diseases1
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Coevolution fails to maintain genetic variation in a host–parasite model with constant finite population size1
Assessing mutualistic metacommunity capacity by integrating spatial and interaction networks1
Limits to selection on standing variation in an asexual population1
Persistence in repeated games encourages the evolution of spite1
What the reproductive number R1
The effect of human vaccination behaviour on strain competition in an infectious disease: An imitation dynamic approach1
Riding the waves from epidemic to endemic: Viral mutations, immunological change and policy responses1
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Beyond fitness: The information imparted in population states by selection throughout lifecycles1
Gain-loss-duplication models for copy number evolution on a phylogeny: Exact algorithms for computing the likelihood and its gradient1
Exact site frequency spectra of neutrally evolving tumors: A transition between power laws reveals a signature of cell viability1
A time-since-infection model for populations with two pathogens1
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Stochastic viability in an island model with partial dispersal: Approximation by a diffusion process in the limit of a large number of islands0
The role of spatial competitive interactions between trees in shaping forest patterns0
Evolution of cooperation with respect to fixation probabilities in multi-player games with random payoffs0
Exact confidence intervals for population growth rate, longevity and generation time0
Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use0
A two-sex renewal model and its population projection0
Time to extinction of a cultural trait in an overlapping generation model0
Quantifying the impact of changes in effective population size and expression level on the rate of coding sequence evolution0
Biographical sketch: Freddy Bugge Christiansen0
Limits to evolutionary rescue by conjugative plasmids0
Stability of Rosenzweig–MacArthur models with non-diffusive dispersal on non-regular networks0
The best of both worlds: Combining population genetic and quantitative genetic models0
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Markov genealogy processes0
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Adaptation of a quantitative trait to a changing environment: New analytical insights on the asexual and infinitesimal sexual models0
Analytical Bayesian approach for the design of surveillance and control programs to assess pest-eradication success0
When can we reconstruct the ancestral state? A unified theory0
Digenic genotypes: The interface of inbreeding, linkage, and linkage disequilibrium0
Phase-type distributions in mathematical population genetics: An emerging framework0
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Theoretical analysis of principal components in an umbrella model of intraspecific evolution0
Temporal variability can promote migration between habitats0
Joint effect of changing selection and demography on the site frequency spectrum0
A nearly-neutral biallelic Moran model with biased mutation and linear and quadratic selection0
Mean-field interacting multi-type birth–death processes with a view to applications in phylodynamics0
A population genetics theory for piRNA-regulated transposable elements0
Structure of theG-matrix in relation to 0
Sharp habitat shifts, evolutionary tipping points and rescue: Quantifying the perilous path of a specialist species towards a refugium in a changing environment0
Estimating the Lambda measure in multiple-merger coalescents0
Corrigendum to “Modeling temporal dynamics of genetic diversity in stage-structured plant populations with reference to demographic genetic structure” [Theor. Popul. Biol. 148 (2022) 76–85]0
Stochastic modeling of Dalbulus maidis, vector of maize diseases0
The expected sample allele frequencies from populations of changing size via orthogonal polynomials0
Indirect interaction between an endemic and an invading pathogen: A case study of Plasmodium and Usutu virus dynamics in a shared bird host population0
Modeling and migration-based control of depopulation0
Neutral diversity in experimental metapopulations0
Evolutionary dynamics of dispersal and local adaptation in multi-resource landscapes0
Improving pest monitoring networks using a simulation-based approach to contribute to pesticide reduction0
Analytical Bayesian models to quantify pest eradication success or species absence using zero-sighting records0
Success-biased social learning in a one-consumer, two-resource model0
The interplay of dormancy and transfer in bacterial populations: Invasion, fixation and coexistence regimes0
Solving multispecies population games in continuous space and time0
The impact of simultaneous infections on phage-host ecology0
Competitive exclusion in a model with seasonality: Three species cannot coexist in an ecosystem with two seasons0
Continuous irregular dynamics with multiple neutral trajectories permit species coexistence in competitive communities0
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Decomposition of disparities in life expectancy with applications to administrative health claims and registry data0
Aggregation unveiled: A sequential modelling approach to bark beetle outbreaks0
Evolutionarily stable levels of aposematic defence in prey populations0
Parentage exclusion of close relatives in haplodiploid species0
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Gene drives and population persistence vs elimination: The impact of spatial structure and inbreeding at low density0
On multi-type Cannings models and multi-type exchangeable coalescents0
Fitting stochastic predator–prey models using both population density and kill rate data0
The effect of consanguinity on coalescence times on the X chromosome0
Large effects and the infinitesimal model0
On the sign of the average effect of an allele0
The 2024 Feldman Prize0
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Duality and the well-posedness of a martingale problem0
Recoverability of ancestral recombination graph topologies0
Evolution with recombination as Gibbs sampling0
The curse of the plateau. Measuring confidence in human mortality estimates at extreme ages0
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On the connections between the spatial Lambda–Fleming–Viot model and other processes for analysing geo-referenced genetic data0
The effects of epistasis and linkage on the invasion of locally beneficial mutations and the evolution of genomic islands0
Mathematical model of rabies vaccination in the United States0
Total biomass of a single population in two-patch environments0
A cultural evolutionary model of the interaction between parental beliefs and behaviors, with applications to vaccine hesitancy0
The shirker’s dilemma and the prospect of cooperation in large groups0
The distribution of waiting distances in ancestral recombination graphs0
Selection for altruistic defense in structured populations0
An almost infinite sites model0
Determining the most recent common ancestor in a finite linear habitat with asymmetric dispersal0
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Inference of gene flow in the process of speciation: Efficient maximum-likelihood implementation of a generalised isolation-with-migration model0
Switching environments, synchronous sex, and the evolution of mating types0
Polygenic dynamics underlying the response of quantitative traits to directional selection0
Model of neo-Malthusian population anticipating future changes in resources0
The 2022 Feldman Prize0
Rates of convergence in the two-island and isolation-with-migration models0
Modeling temporal dynamics of genetic diversity in stage-structured plant populations with reference to demographic genetic structure0
Survival in branching cellular populations0
Amitosis as a strategy of cell division—Insight from the proliferation of Tetrahymena thermophila macronuclei0
Disbandment rules that most facilitate the evolution of cooperation0
Maximum likelihood estimation and natural pairwise estimating equations are identical for three sequences and a symmetric 2-state substitution model0
Untangling the role of temporal and spatial variations in persistence of populations0
Host control and species interactions jointly determine microbiome community structure0
Evolution of spite versus evolution of altruism through a disbandment mechanism0
Variances and covariances of linear summary statistics of segregating sites0
Unifying quantification methods for sexual selection and assortative mating using information theory0
A hidden Markov model to estimate homozygous-by-descent probabilities associated with nested layers of ancestors0
One hundred years of influenza A evolution0
Rate of coalescence of lineage pairs in the SpatialΛ-Fleming–Viot pro0
Application of a Markovian ancestral model to the temporal and spatial dynamics of cultural evolution on a population network0
Corrigendum to “Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction” [Theoretical Population Biology 143 (2022) 30–45]0
Inclusive fitness and Hamilton’s rule in a stochastic environment0
Effect of competition on emergent phases and phase transitions in competitive systems0
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