Theoretical Population Biology

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Volume 144, issue C, 2022

A time-since-infection model for populations with two pathogens pp. 1-12

Ferdinand Pfab, Roger M. Nisbet and Cheryl J. Briggs

Survival in branching cellular populations pp. 13-23

Adam S. Bryant and Maxim O. Lavrentovich

The curse of the plateau. Measuring confidence in human mortality estimates at extreme ages pp. 24-36

Carlo Giovanni Camarda

Hominin forager technology, food sharing, and diet breadth pp. 37-48

Kenichi Aoki and Joe Yuichiro Wakano

The effects of epistasis and linkage on the invasion of locally beneficial mutations and the evolution of genomic islands pp. 49-69

Martin Pontz and Bürger, Reinhard

Analytical Bayesian models to quantify pest eradication success or species absence using zero-sighting records pp. 70-80

B. Barnes, M. Parsa, F. Giannini and D. Ramsey

Volume 143, issue C, 2022

A compendium of covariances and correlation coefficients of coalescent tree properties pp. 1-13

Egor Alimpiev and Noah A. Rosenberg

Application of a Markovian ancestral model to the temporal and spatial dynamics of cultural evolution on a population network pp. 14-29

Takuya Takahashi and Yasuo Ihara

Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction pp. 30-45

Kazuhiro Bessho and Sarah P. Otto

A two-sex renewal model and its population projection pp. 46-51

Nan Li

Conformity and content-biased cultural transmission in the evolution of altruism pp. 52-61

Kaleda K. Denton, Yoav Ram and Marcus W. Feldman

The effect of human vaccination behaviour on strain competition in an infectious disease: An imitation dynamic approach pp. 62-76

Aniruddha Deka and Samit Bhattacharyya

Markov genealogy processes pp. 77-91

Aaron A. King, Qianying Lin and Edward L. Ionides

Expansion of error thresholds for the Moran model pp. 92-104

Maxime Berger

Volume 142, issue C, 2021

Coalescent models derived from birth–death processes pp. 1-11

Fausto F. Crespo, David Posada and Carsten Wiuf

Metacommunities, fitness and gradual evolution pp. 12-35

Tadeas Priklopil and Laurent Lehmann

The role of spatial competitive interactions between trees in shaping forest patterns pp. 36-45

Nicolas Picard

Selection, recombination, and the ancestral initiation graph pp. 46-56

Frederic Alberti, Carolin Herrmann and Ellen Baake

Quantifying the impact of changes in effective population size and expression level on the rate of coding sequence evolution pp. 57-66

T. Latrille and N. Lartillot

Exact site frequency spectra of neutrally evolving tumors: A transition between power laws reveals a signature of cell viability pp. 67-90

Einar Bjarki Gunnarsson, Kevin Leder and Jasmine Foo

Inclusive fitness and Hamilton’s rule in a stochastic environment pp. 91-99

Sabin Lessard, Cong Li, Xiu-Deng Zheng and Yi Tao

Mate guarding in primates arises due to partner scarcity, even if the father provides no paternal care at all pp. 100-113

Sara L. Loo, Danya Rose, Kristen Hawkes and Peter S. Kim

Model of two competing populations in two habitats with migration: Application to optimal marine protected area size pp. 114-122

Alexander Sadykov and Keith D. Farnsworth

Volume 141, issue C, 2021

A model of the burglar alarm hypothesis of prey alarm calls pp. 1-13

Evan C. Haskell and Jonathan Bell

Exploring artificial habitat fragmentation to control invasion by infectious wildlife diseases pp. 14-23

Claudio Bozzuto, Stefano Canessa and Jacob C. Koella

Improving pest monitoring networks using a simulation-based approach to contribute to pesticide reduction pp. 24-33

Cros, Marie-Josée, Aubertot, Jean-Noël, Sabrina Gaba, Xavier Reboud, Sabbadin, Régis and Nathalie Peyrard

The distribution of waiting distances in ancestral recombination graphs pp. 34-43

Yun Deng, Yun S. Song and Rasmus Nielsen

Effects of cultural transmission of surnaming decisions on the sex ratio at birth pp. 44-53

Xiran Liu and Marcus W. Feldman

Volume 140, issue C, 2021

Inference of gene flow in the process of speciation: Efficient maximum-likelihood implementation of a generalised isolation-with-migration model pp. 1-15

Rui J. Costa and Hilde M. Wilkinson-Herbots

Model of neo-Malthusian population anticipating future changes in resources pp. 16-31

Philippe Michel

The effect of consanguinity on coalescence times on the X chromosome pp. 32-43

Daniel J. Cotter, Alissa L. Severson and Noah A. Rosenberg

Bifurcations and hydra effects in Bazykin’s predator–prey model pp. 44-53

Prabir Das Adhikary, Saikat Mukherjee and Bapan Ghosh

Character displacement in the presence of multiple trait differences: Evolution of the storage effect in germination and growth pp. 54-66

Nicholas Kortessis and Peter Chesson

Volume 139, issue C, 2021

A nearly-neutral biallelic Moran model with biased mutation and linear and quadratic selection pp. 1-17

Claus Vogl and Lynette Caitlin Mikula

The interplay of dormancy and transfer in bacterial populations: Invasion, fixation and coexistence regimes pp. 18-49

Jochen Blath and Tóbiás, András

Variance and limiting distribution of coalescence times in a diploid model of a consanguineous population pp. 50-65

Alissa L. Severson, Shai Carmi and Noah A. Rosenberg

Volume 138, issue C, 2021

Fitting stochastic predator–prey models using both population density and kill rate data pp. 1-27

Barraquand, Frédéric and Olivier Gimenez

Switching environments, synchronous sex, and the evolution of mating types pp. 28-42

Berríos-Caro, Ernesto, Tobias Galla and George W.A. Constable

Structure of the G-matrix in relation to phenotypic contributions to fitness pp. 43-56

Steinar Engen and Sæther, Bernt-Erik

Volume 137, issue C, 2021

Coevolution fails to maintain genetic variation in a host–parasite model with constant finite population size pp. 10-21

Ailene MacPherson, Matthew J. Keeling and Sarah P. Otto

Computing the probability of gene trees concordant with the species tree in the multispecies coalescent pp. 22-31

Jakub Truszkowski, Celine Scornavacca and Fabio Pardi

Time to extinction of a cultural trait in an overlapping generation model pp. 32-45

Yutaka Kobayashi, Shun Kurokawa, Takuya Ishii and Joe Yuichiro Wakano

Volume 136, issue C, 2020

Unstable population dynamics in obligate co-operators pp. 1-11

Abdel H. Halloway, Margaret A. Malone and Joel S. Brown

Loss of genetic variation in the two-locus multiallelic haploid model pp. 12-21

Martin Pontz and Marcus W. Feldman

A heuristic model of the effects of phenotypic robustness in adaptive evolution pp. 22-30

Emanuele Rigato and Giuseppe Fusco

Kleptoparasitic interactions modeling varying owner and intruder hunger awareness pp. 31-40

Noble Chowdhury, Kirubel Kentiba, Yashwant Mirajkar, Mana Nasseri, Rychtář, Jan and Dewey Taylor

Volume 135, issue C, 2020

Population abundance in predator–prey systems with predator’s dispersal between two patches pp. 1-8

Rong Huang, Yuanshi Wang and Hong Wu

Establishment process of a magic trait allele subject to both divergent selection and assortative mating pp. 9-18

T. Sakamoto and H. Innan

The spatial Muller’s ratchet: Surfing of deleterious mutations during range expansion pp. 19-31

Foutel-Rodier, Félix and Alison M. Etheridge

A class of fast–slow models for adaptive resistance evolution pp. 32-48

Pérez-Estigarribia, Pastor E., Pierre-Alexandre Bliman and Christian E. Schaerer

The effects of diploid male production on honey bee colony evolution and survival pp. 49-55

Matthew I. Betti and Isaac Lee

Evolution of transmission modifiers under frequency-dependent selection and transmission in constant or fluctuating environments pp. 56-63

Hao Shen, Uri Liberman and Marcus W. Feldman