Theoretical Population Biology

2008 - 2025

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Volume 91, issue C, 2014

Evolution of learning strategies in temporally and spatially variable environments: A review of theory pp. 3-19

Kenichi Aoki and Marcus W. Feldman

On learning dynamics underlying the evolution of learning rules pp. 20-36

Slimane Dridi and Laurent Lehmann

Trade-off between learning and exploitation: The Pareto-optimal versus evolutionarily stable learning schedule in cumulative cultural evolution pp. 37-43

Joe Yuichiro Wakano and Chiaki Miura

Coevolution of intelligence, behavioral repertoire, and lifespan pp. 44-49

Stefano Ghirlanda, Magnus Enquist and Johan Lind

The local enhancement conundrum: In search of the adaptive value of a social learning mechanism pp. 50-57

Michal Arbilly and Kevin N. Laland

Evolution of learning and levels of selection: A lesson from avian parent–offspring communication pp. 58-74

Arnon Lotem and Inbar Biran-Yoeli

Volume 90, issue C, 2013

Competing islands limit the rate of adaptation in structured populations pp. 1-11

Cornelia Pokalyuk, Lisha A. Mathew, Dirk Metzler and Peter Pfaffelhuber

Gompertz–Makeham life expectancies: Expressions and applications pp. 29-35

Trifon I. Missov and Adam Lenart

Jackknife-corrected parametric bootstrap estimates of growth rates in bivalve mollusks using nearest living relatives pp. 36-48

Troy A. Dexter and Kowalewski, Michał

Fixation probability of mobile genetic elements such as plasmids pp. 49-55

Samuel J. Tazzyman and Sebastian Bonhoeffer

An SIS model for cultural trait transmission with conformity bias pp. 56-63

Caroline E. Walters and Jeremy R. Kendal

The nest site lottery: How selectively neutral density dependent growth suppression induces frequency dependent selection pp. 82-90

K. Argasinski and M. Broom

Characteristics of the variance effective population size over time using an age structured model with variable size pp. 91-103

Fredrik Olsson, Hössjer, Ola, Linda Laikre and Nils Ryman

The Moran model with selection: Fixation probabilities, ancestral lines, and an alternative particle representation pp. 104-112

Sandra Kluth and Ellen Baake

Birth–death models and coalescent point processes: The shape and probability of reconstructed phylogenies pp. 113-128

Amaury Lambert and Tanja Stadler

Superinfection reconciles host–parasite association and cross-species transmission pp. 129-134

James Haven and Andrew William Park

Economic epidemiology of avian influenza on smallholder poultry farms pp. 135-144

Maciej F. Boni, Alison P. Galvani, Abraham L. Wickelgren and Anup Malani

Genomic parasites or symbionts? Modeling the effects of environmental pressure on transposition activity in asexual populations pp. 145-151

Startek, Michał, Arnaud Le Rouzic, Pierre Capy, Dariusz Grzebelus and Anna Gambin

Volume 89, issue C, 2013

When can environmental variability benefit population growth? Counterintuitive effects of nonlinearities in vital rates pp. 1-11

Barraquand, Frédéric and Nigel G. Yoccoz

Adaptive evolution of attack ability promotes the evolutionary branching of predator species pp. 12-23

Jian Zu and Jinliang Wang

Coexistence of structured populations with size-based prey selection pp. 24-33

Martin Hartvig and Ken Haste Andersen

Separation of the largest eigenvalues in eigenanalysis of genotype data from discrete subpopulations pp. 34-43

Katarzyna Bryc, Wlodek Bryc and Jack W. Silverstein

A method for estimating the effective number of loci affecting a quantitative character pp. 44-54

Montgomery Slatkin

Predator attack rate evolution in space: The role of ecology mediated by complex emergent spatial structure and self-shading pp. 55-63

Susanna M. Messinger and Annette Ostling

Analysis and rejection sampling of Wright–Fisher diffusion bridges pp. 64-74

Joshua G. Schraiber, Robert C. Griffiths and Steven N. Evans

Stochastic stability and the evolution of coordination in spatially structured populations pp. 75-87

Jeremy Van Cleve and Laurent Lehmann

Volume 88, issue C, 2013

The adaptive invasion of epialleles in a heterogeneous environment pp. 1-8

Jemma L. Geoghegan and Hamish G. Spencer

The evolutionary potential of paramutation: A population-epigenetic model pp. 9-19

Jemma L. Geoghegan and Hamish G. Spencer

Plant–animal mutualism in biological markets: Evolutionary and ecological dynamics driven by non-heritable phenotypic variance pp. 20-30

Zhiyuan Song and Marcus W. Feldman

New approaches to source–sink metapopulations decoupling demography and dispersal pp. 31-46

Vincent Bansaye and Amaury Lambert

The influence of demographic stochasticity on evolutionary dynamics and stability pp. 47-56

Max Shpak, Steven Hecht Orzack and Ernest Barany

Correlation between relatives given complete genotypes: From identity by descent to identity by function pp. 57-67

Serge Sverdlov and Elizabeth A. Thompson

The role of cultural transmission in human demographic change: An age-structured model pp. 68-77

L. Fogarty, N. Creanza and M.W. Feldman

A dynamic model of the marriage market—Part 1: Matching algorithm based on age preference and availability pp. 78-85

A.P. Matthews and M.L. Garenne

A dynamic model of the marriage market—Part 2: Simulation of marital states and application to empirical data pp. 86-93

A.P. Matthews and M.L. Garenne

Taylor’s power law of fluctuation scaling and the growth-rate theorem pp. 94-100

Joel E. Cohen

Volume 87, issue C, 2013

On the extended Moran model and its relation to coalescents with multiple collisions pp. 5-14

Thierry Huillet and Möhle, Martin

Analysis of DNA sequence variation within marine species using Beta-coalescents pp. 15-24

Steinrücken, Matthias, Matthias Birkner and Jochen Blath

The ancestral selection graph under strong directional selection pp. 25-33

Cornelia Pokalyuk and Peter Pfaffelhuber

The effect of fluctuating selection on the genealogy at a linked site pp. 34-50

Jesse E. Taylor

A sequentially Markov conditional sampling distribution for structured populations with migration and recombination pp. 51-61

Steinrücken, Matthias, Joshua S. Paul and Yun S. Song

Genotype imputation in a coalescent model with infinitely-many-sites mutation pp. 62-74

Lucy Huang, Erkan O. Buzbas and Noah A. Rosenberg

Genetic hitchhiking in spatially extended populations pp. 75-89

N.H. Barton, A.M. Etheridge, J. Kelleher and Véber, A.

On spatial coalescents with multiple mergers in two dimensions pp. 90-104

Benjamin Heuer and Anja Sturm

Inference in two dimensions: Allele frequencies versus lengths of shared sequence blocks pp. 105-119

N.H. Barton, A.M. Etheridge, J. Kelleher and Véber, A.

Volume 86, issue C, 2013

Spatial heterogeneity promotes coexistence of rock–paper–scissors metacommunities pp. 1-11

Sebastian J. Schreiber and Timothy P. Killingback

Exclusion and spatial segregation in the apparent competition between two hosts sharing macroparasites pp. 12-22

Mattia Manica, Roberto Rosà , Andrea Pugliese and Luca Bolzoni

Using mass scaling of movement cost and resource encounter rate to predict animal body size–Population density relationships pp. 23-28

Erlend B. Nilsen, Anders G. Finstad, Næsje, Tor F. and Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

Evolution with stochastic fitnesses: A role for recombination pp. 29-42

Oana Carja, Uri Liberman and Marcus W. Feldman

Two success-biased social learning strategies pp. 43-49

Ryan Baldini

Modeling effective transmission pathways and control of the world’s most successful parasite pp. 50-61

Matthew Turner, Suzanne Lenhart, Benjamin Rosenthal and Xiaopeng Zhao