SLiM 4: multispecies eco-evolutionary modeling

BC Haller, PW Messer - The American Naturalist, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
The SLiM software framework for genetically explicit forward simulation has been widely
used in population genetics. However, it has been largely restricted to modeling only a …

The immediate costs and long‐term benefits of assisted gene flow in large populations

JA Grummer, TR Booker, R Matthey‐Doret… - Conservation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With the genetic health of many plant and animal populations deteriorating due to climate
change outpacing adaptation, interventions, such as assisted gene flow (AGF), may provide …

Using computational simulations to model deleterious variation and genetic load in natural populations

CC Kyriazis, JA Robinson… - The American …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Deleterious genetic variation is abundant in wild populations, and understanding the
ecological and conservation implications of such variation is an area of active research …

Using computational simulations to quantify genetic load and predict extinction risk

CC Kyriazis, JA Robinson, KE Lohmueller - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Small and isolated wildlife populations face numerous threats to extinction, among which is
the deterioration of fitness due to an accumulation of deleterious genetic variation. Genomic …

Dominance can increase genetic variance after a population bottleneck: A synthesis of the theoretical and empirical evidence

AJ Mularo, XE Bernal, JA DeWoody - Journal of Heredity, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Drastic reductions in population size, or population bottlenecks, can lead to a reduction in
additive genetic variance and adaptive potential. Genetic variance for some quantitative …

The genetics of assisted gene flow: immediate costs and long-term benefits

JA Grummer, TR Booker, R Matthey-Doret… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Plant and animal populations are facing several novel risks such as human-mediated
habitat fragmentation and climate change that threaten their long-term productivity and …

GSpace: an exact coalescence simulator of recombining genomes under isolation by distance

T Virgoulay, F Rousset, R Leblois - Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Simulation-based inference can bypass the limitations of statistical methods
based on analytical approximations, but software allowing simulation of structured …

[图书][B] Understanding the impact of deleterious genetic variation on extinction risk in small populations

CC Kyriazis - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Deleterious genetic variation is abundant in wild populations and can contribute to extinction
when populations become small and isolated. For example, elevated levels of inbreeding in …

Coalescent tree recording with selection for fast forward-in-time simulations

R Matthey-Doret - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Forward simulations are increasingly important in evolutionary genetics to simulate selection
with realistic demography, mating systems and ecology. To reach the performance needed …