Across the tree of life, populations have evolved the capacity to contend with suboptimal
conditions by engaging in dormancy, whereby individuals enter a reversible state of reduced …

Gene drive technology, in which fast‐spreading engineered drive alleles are introduced into
wild populations, represents a promising new tool in the fight against vector‐borne diseases …

A phase-type distribution is the time to absorption in a continuous-or discrete-time Markov
chain. Phase-type distributions can be used as a general framework to calculate key …

We introduce a new Wright-Fisher type model for seed banks incorporating “simultaneous
switching”, which is motivated by recent work on microbial dormancy ([21],[28]). We show …

Seed banking (or dormancy) is a widespread bet‐hedging strategy, generating a form of
population overlap, which decreases the magnitude of genetic drift. The methodological …

In the present article, we investigate the effects of dormancy on an abstract population
genetic level. We first provide a short review of seed bank models in population genetics …

Across the tree of life, populations have evolved the capacity to contend with suboptimal
conditions by engaging in dormancy, whereby individuals enter a reversible state of reduced …

Fluctuations in the availability of resources constrain the growth and reproduction of
individuals, which subsequently affects the evolution of their respective populations. Many …

We investigate scaling limits of the seed bank model when migration (to and from the seed
bank) is 'slow'compared to reproduction. This is motivated by models for bacterial dormancy …

The present thesis uses mathematical modelling to investigate the consequences of
dormancy. Dormancy describes a reversible and protected state of reduced metabolic …