No environment is constant over time, and environmental fluctuations impact the outcome of
evolutionary dynamics. Survival of a population not adapted to some environmental …

Natural microbial populations often have complex spatial structures. This can impact their
evolution, in particular the ability of mutants to take over. While mutant fixation probabilities …

Populations threatened by an abrupt environmental change—due to rapid climate change,
pathogens or invasive competitors—may survive if they possess or generate genetic …

Most natural environments exhibit a substantial component of random variation, with a
degree of temporal autocorrelation that defines the color of environmental noise. Such …

When cancers or bacterial infections establish, small populations of cells have to free
themselves from homoeostatic regulations that prevent their expansion. Trait evolution …

Populations facing adverse environments, novel pathogens or invasive competitors may be
destined to extinction if they are unable to adapt rapidly. Quantitative predictions of the …

A population experiencing habitat loss can avoid extinction by undergoing genetic
adaptation—a process known as evolutionary rescue. Here we analytically approximate the …

Evolutionary rescue is the process whereby a declining population may start growing again,
thus avoiding extinction, via an increase in the frequency of fitter genotypes. These …

Genetic variation and population sizes are critical factors for successful adaptation to novel
environmental conditions. Gene flow between sub‐populations is a potent mechanism to …

In nature, most microbial populations have complex spatial structures that can affect their
evolution. Evolutionary graph theory predicts that some spatial structures modelled by …