Using coalescent simulations, we study the impact of three different sampling schemes on
patterns of neutral diversity in structured populations. Specifically, we are interested in two …

We consider the space of complete and separable metric spaces which are equipped with a
probability measure. A notion of convergence is given based on the philosophy that a …

The distributed genome hypothesis states that the gene pool of a bacterial taxon is much
more complex than that found in a single individual genome. However, the possible fitness …

Motivation: A standard approach to classifying sets of genomes is to calculate their pairwise
distances. This is difficult for large samples. We have therefore developed an algorithm for …

Improvements in sequencing technology over the past 5 years are leading to routine
application of shotgun sequencing in the fields of ecology and evolution. However, the theory to …

Alignment-free distance measures are generally less accurate but more efficient than
traditional alignment-based metrics. In the context of genome sequence analysis, the efficiency …

… Peter Pfaffelhuber … Peter Pfaffelhuber … Peter Pfaffelhuber is professor of probability
theory and modelling in the life sciences at the University of Freiburg, Germany. …

The rapid expansion of wild pigs (Sus scrofa) throughout the United States has been fueled
by unlawful introductions, with invasive populations causing extensive crop losses, …

The Fleming–Viot measure-valued diffusion is a Markov process describing the evolution of
(allelic) types under mutation, selection and random reproduction. We enrich this process by …

For a genetic locus carrying a strongly beneficial allele which has just fixed in a large
population, we study the ancestry at a linked neutral locus. During this “selective sweep” the …