The speed of population adaptation to changing biotic and abiotic environments is
determined by the interaction between genetic drift, positive selection and linkage effects …

In many species, a few individuals produce most of the next generation. How much of this
reproductive skew is driven by variation among individuals in fixed traits, how much by …

The vast majority of pathogen phylogenetic studies do not consider the possibility of multiple
merger events being present, where a single node of the tree leads to more than two …

Variation in a sample of molecular sequence data informs about the past evolutionary
history of the sample's population. Traditionally, Bayesian modeling coupled with the …

Abstract The Pacific sardine,(Sardinops sagax), is a small, coastal pelagic species in the
family Clupeidae. Sardine are ecologically important forage for many animals, and have …

We investigate through simulations the effect of random sweepstakes, recurrent bottlenecks,
dominance, and epistasis on selection a diploid population when the phenotype is …

Evolutionary ecology may be described as explaining ecology through evolution and vice
versa, but one may also view it as an integration of the two fields, where one takes the view …

The vast diversity of life on earth is the result of evolutionary pro-cesses that acted over
billions of years. Historically it was assumed that adaptation and the origin of new species …

Pathogen populations are often highly structured, violating the common assumption of
homogeneity. The structure of pathogen population arises from a complex interplay of …