Marine invertebrates and fish are well known for their remarkable genetic diversity, which is
commonly explained by large population size and the characteristic dispersive nature of …

Population genetics theory has laid the foundations for genomic analyses including the
recent burst in genome scans for selection and statistical inference of past demographic …

The concept of fitness is central to evolution, but it quantifies only the expected number of
offspring an individual will produce. The actual number of offspring is also subject to …

In animals, the population genomic literature is dominated by two taxa, namely mammals
and drosophilids, in which fully sequenced, well-annotated genomes have been available …

Highly fecund natural populations characterized by high early mortality abound, yet our
knowledge about their recruitment dynamics is somewhat rudimentary. This knowledge gap …

This work reflects sixteen hours of lectures delivered by the author at the 2009 St Flour
summer school in probability. It provides a rapid introduction to a range of mathematical …

Pervasive natural selection can strongly influence observed patterns of genetic variation, but
these effects remain poorly understood when multiple selected variants segregate in nearby …

The ability of the site-frequency spectrum (SFS) to reflect the particularities of gene
genealogies exhibiting multiple mergers of ancestral lines as opposed to those obtained in …

The standard neutral model of molecular evolution has traditionally been used as the null
model for population genomics. We gathered a collection of 45 genome-wide site frequency …

The hermaphroditic nematode Pristionchus pacificus is an established model system for
comparative studies with Caenorhabditis elegans in developmental biology, ecology, and …