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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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
A Wright–Fisher graph model and the impact of directional selection on genetic variation	21
The mutation process on the ancestral line under selection	18
Pneumococcus and the stress-gradient hypothesis: A trade-off links	17
Extinction threshold and large population limit of a plant metapopulation model with recurrent extinction events and a seed bank component	14
Editorial Board	13
Demographic inference for spatially heterogeneous populations using long shared haplotypes	12
Editorial Board	11
Interconnection between density-regulation and stability in competitive ecological network	11
Selection on age-specific survival: Constant versus fluctuating environment	11
Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction	10
A compendium of covariances and correlation coefficients of coalescent tree properties	10
The TMRCA of general genealogies in populations with deterministically varying size	10
Improving the realism of neutral ecological models by incorporating transient dynamics with temporal changes in community size	9
The coalescent in finite populations with arbitrary, fixed structure	9
Coalescence and sampling distributions for Feller diffusions	8
Joint effect of changing selection and demography on the site frequency spectrum	8
Editorial Board	8
Limits to selection on standing variation in an asexual population	8
Muller’s ratchet and gene duplication	7
Editorial Board	7
The shirker’s dilemma and the prospect of cooperation in large groups	7
On the connections between the spatial Lambda–Fleming–Viot model and other processes for analysing geo-referenced genetic data	7
Estimating the Lambda measure in multiple-merger coalescents	7
The distribution of the number of mutations in the genealogy of a sample from a single population	6
On the sign of the average effect of an allele	6

Determining the most recent common ancestor in a finite linear habitat with asymmetric dispersal	6
The 2022 Feldman Prize	6
A two-sex renewal model and its population projection	6
Parentage exclusion of close relatives in haplodiploid species	6
Modeling temporal dynamics of genetic diversity in stage-structured plant populations with reference to demographic genetic structure	6
Total biomass of a single population in two-patch environments	5
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of anthelmintic resistance in soil-transmitted helminths	5
A central limit theorem concerning uncertainty in estimates of individual admixture	5
Disbandment rules that most facilitate the evolution of cooperation	5
Spatial invasion of cooperative parasites	5
The grapheme-valued Wright–Fisher diffusion with mutation	5
Rates of convergence in the two-island and isolation-with-migration models	5
Dynamics of SIR model with heterogeneous response to intervention policy	5
The ancestral selection graph for a Λ-asymmetric Moran model	5
Patterns of spawning and settlement of reef fishes as strategic responses to post-settlement competition	4
Evolution of redirected help with stepping-stone dispersal	4
Evolution of spite versus evolution of altruism through a disbandment mechanism	4
Taylor’s law for exponentially growing local populations linked by migration	4
Editorial Board	4
Identity-by-descent segments in large samples	4
Evolution of trustfulness in the case where resources for cooperation are sometimes absent	4
Beyond fitness: The information imparted in population states by selection throughout lifecycles	4
A time-since-infection model for populations with two pathogens	4
Computing tree size under dynamical models of diversification	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Variances and covariances of linear summary statistics of segregating sites	3
Effect of competition on emergent phases and phase transitions in competitive systems	3
Editorial Board	3
Consistency and central limit results for the maximum likelihood estimator in the Admixture Model	3
Gene-culture association and coevolution	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Adaptation of a quantitative trait to a changing environment: New analytical insights on the asexual and infinitesimal sexual models	3
Mathematical bounds on r2	3
Cultural transmission, competition for prey, and the evolution of cooperative hunting	3
Importance of environmental productivity and diet quality in intraguild predation	3
The Patterson-Price-Reich's rule of population structure analysis from genetic marker data	3
Riding the waves from epidemic to endemic: Viral mutations, immunological change and policy responses	3
Using mathematical constraints to explain narrow ranges for allele-sharing dissimilarities	3
Modeling and migration-based control of depopulation	3
Editorial Board	3
One hundred years of influenza A evolution	3
Evolution with recombination as Gibbs sampling	2
Large effects and the infinitesimal model	2
Mathematical epidemiology for a later age	2
Bernoulli factories and duality in Wright–Fisher and Allen–Cahn models of population genetics	2
A hidden Markov model to estimate homozygous-by-descent probabilities associated with nested layers of ancestors	2
Species coexistence as an emergent effect of interacting mechanisms	2
Biographical sketch: Freddy Bugge Christiansen	2

Neutral diversity in experimental metapopulations	2
The structured coalescent in the context of gene copy number variation	2
Editorial Board	2
Continuous irregular dynamics with multiple neutral trajectories permit species coexistence in competitive communities	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
The best of both worlds: Combining population genetic and quantitative genetic models	2
A mathematical framework for time-variant multi-state kinship modelling	2
Mathematical model of rabies vaccination in the United States	2
A stochastic field theory for the evolution of quantitative traits in finite populations	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
Application of a Markovian ancestral model to the temporal and spatial dynamics of cultural evolution on a population network	2
The expected sample allele frequencies from populations of changing size via orthogonal polynomials	2
Aggregation unveiled: A sequential modelling approach to bark beetle outbreaks	2
Decomposition of disparities in life expectancy with applications to administrative health claims and registry data	1
Temporal variability can promote migration between habitats	1
When can we reconstruct the ancestral state? A unified theory	1
Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use	1
A decomposition of a phylogenetically-informed distance between species assemblages into basal and terminal components	1
Stochastic modeling of Dalbulus maidis, vector of maize diseases	1
On multi-type Cannings models and multi-type exchangeable coalescents	1
Distributions of cherries and pitchforks for the Ford model	1
Male mating choices: The drive behind menopause?	1
Mean-field interacting multi-type birth–death processes with a view to applications in phylodynamics	1
Corrigendum to “Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction” [Theoretical Population Biology 143 (2022) 30–45]	1
The impact of simultaneous infections on phage-host ecology	1
Evolving genealogies in cultural evolution, the descendant process, and the number of cultural traits	1
Interacting Partially Observable DBN to model the dynamics of partially observable metapopulations: Opportunities and open challenges	1
Markov genealogy processes	1
Evolutionarily stable levels of aposematic defence in prey populations	1
Evolutionary dynamics of dispersal and local adaptation in multi-resource landscapes	1
A matrix-analytical sampling formula for time-homogeneous coalescent processes under the infinite sites mutation model	1
Editorial Board	1
Muller’s ratchet in a near-critical regime: Tournament versus fitness proportional selection	1
Editorial Board	1
Conformity and content-biased cultural transmission in the evolution of altruism	1
Copuling population dynamics and diel migration patterns	1
Analytical Bayesian approach for the design of surveillance and control programs to assess pest-eradication success	1
Prevalence of social parasitism in ant populations: Modeling energetics, demography and space in the Polyergus/Formica system	1
An almost infinite sites model	1
A cultural evolutionary model of the interaction between parental beliefs and behaviors, with applications to vaccine hesitancy	1
Spatial evolutionary public goods game theory applied to optimal resource allocation and defense strategies in herbaceous plants	1
Evolution of delayed dispersal with group size effect and population dynamics	1
Editorial Board	1