Given human population growth and accelerated global trade, the rate of emergence of
exotic plant pathogens is bound to increase. Understanding the processes that lead to the …

Authored by leading experts, this seminal text presents a straightforward and elementary
account of coalescent theory, which is a central concept in the study of genetic sequence …

Population genetic analyses often require the estimation of parameters such as population
size and migration rates. In the 1960s, enzyme electrophoresis was developed; it was the …

We consider a class of haploid population models with nonoverlapping generations and
fixed population size N assuming that the family sizes within a generation are exchangeable …

We give an overview of stochastic models of evolution that have found applications in
genetics, ecology and linguistics for an audience of non-specialists, especially statistical …

A new genetic estimator of the effective population size (N e) is introduced. This likelihood-
based (LB) estimator uses two temporally spaced genetic samples of individuals from a …

Classical population genetics describes how the fate of an allele is driven by four forces:
mutation, migration, selection and drift. However, these are sometimes insufficient to explain …

We study the genealogical structure of samples from a population for which any given
generation is made up of direct descendants from several previous generations. These …

We study the following model for a phylogenetic tree on n extant species: the origin of the
clade is a random time in the past whose (improper) distribution is uniform on (0,∞); …

For supercritical multitype Markov branching processes in continuous time, we investigate
the evolution of types along those lineages that survive up to some time t. We establish …