Wright's F-statistics, and especially F ST, provide important insights into the evolutionary
processes that influence the structure of genetic variation within and among populations …

Gene identity by descent (IBD) is a fundamental concept that underlies genetically mediated
similarities among relatives. Gene IBD is traced through ancestral meioses and is defined …

Local extinctions have cascading effects on ecosystem functions, yet little is known about the
potential for the rapid evolutionary change of species in human-modified scenarios. We …

Molecular population genetics aims to explain genetic variation and molecular evolution
from population genetics principles. The field was born 50 years ago with the first measures …

Population genetic analyses often require the estimation of parameters such as population
size and migration rates. In the 1960s, enzyme electrophoresis was developed; it was the …

Comparative phylogeography can elucidate the influence of historical events on current
patterns of biodiversity and can identify patterns of co-vicariance among unrelated taxa that …

Coalescent genealogy samplers attempt to estimate past qualities of a population, such as
its size, growth rate, patterns of gene flow or time of divergence from another population …

We describe a mathematical model and Monte Carlo (MC) simulation of viral evolution
during acute infection. We consider both synchronous and asynchronous processes of viral …

Estimates of the coalescent effective population size N e can be poorly correlated with the
true population size. The relationship between N e and the population size is sensitive to the …

Species are impacted by climate change at both ecological and evolutionary time scales.
Studies in northern continents have provided abundant evidence of dramatic shifts in …