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Papers

(The median citation count of Theoretical Population Biology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	33
The mutation process on the ancestral line under selection	32
A Wright–Fisher graph model and the impact of directional selection on genetic variation	18
Model of two competing populations in two habitats with migration: Application to optimal marine protected area size	17
Demographic inference for spatially heterogeneous populations using long shared haplotypes	16
Pneumococcus and the stress-gradient hypothesis: A trade-off links	15
Extinction threshold and large population limit of a plant metapopulation model with recurrent extinction events and a seed bank component	14
Metacommunities, fitness and gradual evolution	12
Editorial Board	11
Selection on age-specific survival: Constant versus fluctuating environment	11
The coalescent in finite populations with arbitrary, fixed structure	10
Improving the realism of neutral ecological models by incorporating transient dynamics with temporal changes in community size	10
Interconnection between density-regulation and stability in competitive ecological network	10
A compendium of covariances and correlation coefficients of coalescent tree properties	9
Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction	8
Limits to selection on standing variation in an asexual population	8
Editorial Board	8
Coalescence and sampling distributions for Feller diffusions	7
Joint effect of changing selection and demography on the site frequency spectrum	7
Modeling temporal dynamics of genetic diversity in stage-structured plant populations with reference to demographic genetic structure	6
On the connections between the spatial Lambda–Fleming–Viot model and other processes for analysing geo-referenced genetic data	6
The shirker’s dilemma and the prospect of cooperation in large groups	6
The 2022 Feldman Prize	6
Estimating the Lambda measure in multiple-merger coalescents	6
Improving pest monitoring networks using a simulation-based approach to contribute to pesticide reduction	6

Editorial Board	6
Muller’s ratchet and gene duplication	6
Parentage exclusion of close relatives in haplodiploid species	5
Disbandment rules that most facilitate the evolution of cooperation	5
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of anthelmintic resistance in soil-transmitted helminths	5
Evolution of trustfulness in the case where resources for cooperation are sometimes absent	5
Determining the most recent common ancestor in a finite linear habitat with asymmetric dispersal	5
On the sign of the average effect of an allele	5
Total biomass of a single population in two-patch environments	5
Dynamics of SIR model with heterogeneous response to intervention policy	5
A central limit theorem concerning uncertainty in estimates of individual admixture	5
A two-sex renewal model and its population projection	5
Rates of convergence in the two-island and isolation-with-migration models	5
Spatial invasion of cooperative parasites	5
Editorial Board	5
The grapheme-valued Wright–Fisher diffusion with mutation	4
Editorial Board	4
Beyond fitness: The information imparted in population states by selection throughout lifecycles	4
Editorial Board	4
Taylor’s law for exponentially growing local populations linked by migration	4
Selection, recombination, and the ancestral initiation graph	4
Riding the waves from epidemic to endemic: Viral mutations, immunological change and policy responses	4
Evolution of spite versus evolution of altruism through a disbandment mechanism	4
The ancestral selection graph for a Λ-asymmetric Moran model	4
Patterns of spawning and settlement of reef fishes as strategic responses to post-settlement competition	4
A time-since-infection model for populations with two pathogens	4
Using mathematical constraints to explain narrow ranges for allele-sharing dissimilarities	4
The role of spatial competitive interactions between trees in shaping forest patterns	3
Editorial Board	3
Quantifying the impact of changes in effective population size and expression level on the rate of coding sequence evolution	3
Variances and covariances of linear summary statistics of segregating sites	3
Editorial Board	3
The Patterson-Price-Reich's rule of population structure analysis from genetic marker data	3
Modeling and migration-based control of depopulation	3
Adaptation of a quantitative trait to a changing environment: New analytical insights on the asexual and infinitesimal sexual models	3
A model of the burglar alarm hypothesis of prey alarm calls	3
Effect of competition on emergent phases and phase transitions in competitive systems	3
Importance of environmental productivity and diet quality in intraguild predation	3
One hundred years of influenza A evolution	3
Editorial Board	3
Cultural transmission, competition for prey, and the evolution of cooperative hunting	2
A stochastic field theory for the evolution of quantitative traits in finite populations	2
The structured coalescent in the context of gene copy number variation	2
Large effects and the infinitesimal model	2
Biographical sketch: Freddy Bugge Christiansen	2
Stochastic viability in an island model with partial dispersal: Approximation by a diffusion process in the limit of a large number of islands	2
Amitosis as a strategy of cell division—Insight from the proliferation of Tetrahymena thermophila macronuclei	2
Neutral diversity in experimental metapopulations	2
Mathematical epidemiology for a later age	2
Bernoulli factories and duality in Wright–Fisher and Allen–Cahn models of population genetics	2

Application of a Markovian ancestral model to the temporal and spatial dynamics of cultural evolution on a population network	2
Indirect interaction between an endemic and an invading pathogen: A case study of Plasmodium and Usutu virus dynamics in a shared bird host population	2
Species coexistence as an emergent effect of interacting mechanisms	2
Aggregation unveiled: A sequential modelling approach to bark beetle outbreaks	2
Continuous irregular dynamics with multiple neutral trajectories permit species coexistence in competitive communities	2
Mathematical bounds on r2	2
Editorial Board	2
Effects of cultural transmission of surnaming decisions on the sex ratio at birth	2
A hidden Markov model to estimate homozygous-by-descent probabilities associated with nested layers of ancestors	2
Evolution with recombination as Gibbs sampling	2
The expected sample allele frequencies from populations of changing size via orthogonal polynomials	2
Mathematical model of rabies vaccination in the United States	2
Muller’s ratchet in a near-critical regime: Tournament versus fitness proportional selection	1
Decomposition of disparities in life expectancy with applications to administrative health claims and registry data	1
A mathematical framework for time-variant multi-state kinship modelling	1
Editorial Board	1
Exploring artificial habitat fragmentation to control invasion by infectious wildlife diseases	1
A cultural evolutionary model of the interaction between parental beliefs and behaviors, with applications to vaccine hesitancy	1
Evolutionarily stable levels of aposematic defence in prey populations	1
Distributions of cherries and pitchforks for the Ford model	1
Male mating choices: The drive behind menopause?	1
Copuling population dynamics and diel migration patterns	1
Corrigendum to “Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction” [Theoretical Population Biology 143 (2022) 30–45]	1
The best of both worlds: Combining population genetic and quantitative genetic models	1
Editorial Board	1
When can we reconstruct the ancestral state? A unified theory	1
On multi-type Cannings models and multi-type exchangeable coalescents	1
The impact of simultaneous infections on phage-host ecology	1
Spatial evolutionary public goods game theory applied to optimal resource allocation and defense strategies in herbaceous plants	1
Editorial Board	1
Mean-field interacting multi-type birth–death processes with a view to applications in phylodynamics	1
Editorial Board	1
Evolution of delayed dispersal with group size effect and population dynamics	1
Temporal variability can promote migration between habitats	1
An almost infinite sites model	1
Inclusive fitness and Hamilton’s rule in a stochastic environment	1
A matrix-analytical sampling formula for time-homogeneous coalescent processes under the infinite sites mutation model	1
Conformity and content-biased cultural transmission in the evolution of altruism	1