Theoretical Population Biology

2008 - 2025

Current editor(s): Jeremy Van Cleve

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Volume 166, issue C, 2025

The Feller diffusion conditioned on a single ancestral founder pp. 1-15

Conrad J. Burden and Robert C. Griffiths

Tikhonov–Fenichel reductions and their application to a novel modelling approach for mutualism pp. 16-35

Johannes Apelt and Volkmar Liebscher

An equal-tempered measure of linkage disequilibrium pp. 36-43

Mark M. Tanaka

Dynamics of the distribution of fitness effects during adaptation pp. 44-55

Tenoch Morales, Abigail Kushnir and Lindi M. Wahl

Inconsistency of parsimony under the multispecies coalescent pp. 56-69

Daniel A. Rickert, Louis Wai-Tong Fan and Matthew W. Hahn

Consistency and central limit results for the maximum likelihood estimator in the Admixture Model pp. 70-79

Carola Sophia Heinzel

Computing tree size under dynamical models of diversification pp. 80-91

Ailene MacPherson and Matt Pennell

A decomposition of a phylogenetically-informed distance between species assemblages into basal and terminal components pp. 92-106

Julia Fukuyama

The asymmetry between spite and altruism pp. 107-115

Shun Kurokawa and Sabin Lessard

Using mathematical constraints to explain narrow ranges for allele-sharing dissimilarities pp. 116-137

Xiran Liu, Zarif Ahsan and Noah A. Rosenberg

Volume 165, issue C, 2025

The TMRCA of general genealogies in populations with deterministically varying size pp. 1-9

Alejandro H. Wences, Peñaloza, Lizbeth, Steinrücken, Matthias and Siri-Jégousse, Arno

Identity-by-descent segments in large samples pp. 10-21

Seth D. Temple and Elizabeth A. Thompson

Evolution of redirected help with stepping-stone dispersal pp. 22-28

Flatrès, Alan and Geoff Wild

Conditional gene genealogies given the population pedigree for a diploid Moran model with selfing pp. 29-44

Maximillian Newman, John Wakeley and Fan, Wai-Tong (Louis)

Prevalence of social parasitism in ant populations: Modeling energetics, demography and space in the Polyergus/Formica system pp. 45-61

Patrick J. Talley and Frederick R. Adler

Gene-culture association and coevolution pp. 62-71

Laurel Fogarty, Stephen Zhang and Marcus W. Feldman

The distribution of the number of mutations in the genealogy of a sample from a single population pp. 72-78

Yun-Xin Fu

Volume 164, issue C, 2025

Mathematical bounds on r2 and the effect size in case-control genome-wide association studies pp. 1-11

Sanjana M. Paye and Michael D. Edge

Muller’s ratchet and gene duplication pp. 12-22

Fabian Freund, Johannes Wirtz, Yichen Zheng, Schäfer, Yannick and Thomas Wiehe

Evolution between two competing macrophyte populations along a resource gradient leads to collapse in a bistable lake ecosystem pp. 23-36

Sirine Boucenna, Gael Raoul and Vasilis Dakos

Parthenogenesis, sexual conflict, and selection on fertilization rates in switching environments pp. 37-56

Xiaoyuan Liu, Jon W. Pitchford and George W.A. Constable

Volume 163, issue C, 2025

A mathematical framework for time-variant multi-state kinship modelling pp. 1-12

Joe W.B. Butterick, Peter W.F. Smith, Jakub Bijak and Jason Hilton

The Patterson-Price-Reich's rule of population structure analysis from genetic marker data pp. 13-23

Jinliang Wang

Importance of environmental productivity and diet quality in intraguild predation pp. 24-35

Toshiyuki Namba, Yasuhiro Takeuchi and Malay Banerjee

Spatial evolutionary public goods game theory applied to optimal resource allocation and defense strategies in herbaceous plants pp. 36-49

Molly Creagar, Richard Rebarber and Brigitte Tenhumberg

Exact calculation of the expected SFS in structured populations pp. 50-61

Armando Arredondo, Corujo, Josué, Noûs, Camille, Simon Boitard, Chikhi, Lounès and Olivier Mazet

A matrix-analytical sampling formula for time-homogeneous coalescent processes under the infinite sites mutation model pp. 62-79

Asger Hobolth, Simon Boitard, Andreas Futschik and Raphael Leblois

Eco-evolutionary dynamics of anthelmintic resistance in soil-transmitted helminths pp. 80-90

Swati Patel, Kelsey Lyberger, Carolin Vegvari and Hayriye Gulbudak

Connectivity, conservation and catch: Understanding the effects of dispersal between harvested and protected patches pp. 91-105

Femke N. Reurik, Juan Segura and Frank M. Hilker

Volume 162, issue C, 2025

Catching a wave: On the suitability of traveling-wave solutions in epidemiological modeling pp. 1-12

Langmüller, Anna M., Joachim Hermisson, Courtney C. Murdock and Philipp W. Messer

Species coexistence as an emergent effect of interacting mechanisms pp. 13-21

Thomas Seidelmann and Sanaz Mostaghim

The central limit theorem for the number of mutations in the genealogy of a sample from a large population pp. 22-28

Yun-Xin Fu

Volume 161, issue C, 2025

A stochastic field theory for the evolution of quantitative traits in finite populations pp. 1-12

Ananda Shikhara Bhat

Selection for altruistic defense in structured populations pp. 13-24

Felix Jordan, Martin Hutzenthaler and Dirk Metzler

Stochastic offspring distributions amplify selection bias in mutation accumulation experiments pp. 25-33

Mojgan Ezadian and Lindi M. Wahl

Effect of competition on emergent phases and phase transitions in competitive systems pp. 34-41

Shikun Wang, Yuanshi Wang and Hong Wu

The impact of simultaneous infections on phage-host ecology pp. 42-49

Jaye Sudweeks and Christoph Hauert

Volume 160, issue C, 2024

Patterns of spawning and settlement of reef fishes as strategic responses to post-settlement competition pp. 1-13

Erik G. Noonburg, Suzanne H. Alonzo, Craig W. Osenberg, Stephen E. Swearer and Jeffrey S. Shima

A simple model and rules for the evolution of microbial mutualistic symbiosis with positive fitness feedbacks pp. 14-24

Sosuke Iwai

Sharp habitat shifts, evolutionary tipping points and rescue: Quantifying the perilous path of a specialist species towards a refugium in a changing environment pp. 25-48

Dekens, Léonard

An almost infinite sites model pp. 49-61

Alejandra Avalos-Pacheco, Cronjäger, Mathias C., Paul A. Jenkins and Jotun Hein

Aggregation unveiled: A sequential modelling approach to bark beetle outbreaks pp. 62-69

Mahdi Salehzadeh, John M. Stockie and Ailene MacPherson

Volume 159, issue C, 2024

Mean-field interacting multi-type birth–death processes with a view to applications in phylodynamics pp. 1-12

William S. DeWitt, Steven N. Evans, Ella Hiesmayr and Sebastian Hummel

A Wright–Fisher graph model and the impact of directional selection on genetic variation pp. 13-24

Ingemar Kaj, Carina F. Mugal and Müller-Widmann, Rebekka

One hundred years of influenza A evolution pp. 25-34

Bjarke Frost Nielsen, Christian Berrig, Bryan T. Grenfell and Viggo Andreasen

Spatial invasion of cooperative parasites pp. 35-58

Vianney Brouard, Cornelia Pokalyuk, Marco Seiler and Hung Tran

Duality and the well-posedness of a martingale problem pp. 59-73

Andrej Depperschmidt, Andreas Greven and Peter Pfaffelhuber

Joint identity among loci under mutation and regular inbreeding pp. 74-90

Marcy K. Uyenoyama

The ancestral selection graph for a Λ-asymmetric Moran model pp. 91-107

González Casanova, Adrián, Noemi Kurt and Pérez, José Luis

Demographic inference for spatially heterogeneous populations using long shared haplotypes pp. 108-124

Forien, Raphaël, Harald Ringbauer and Graham Coop