Mario Pineda-Krch
Ecological dynamics and the basis of sympatric phenotypic diversification
Theoretical and empirical studies are showing evidence in support of evolutionary branching and sympatric speciation due to frequency‐dependent competition. However, phenotypic diversification due …
Received 21 August 2009 17:39 UTC; Posted 24 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
GillespieSSA: A user-friendly stochastic simulation package for R
GillespieSSA is a package for the statistical computing and graphics language and environment R. GillespieSSA provides a simple to use and extensible interface to several stochastic simulation algo…
Received 21 August 2009 17:49 UTC; Posted 24 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
The joys and perils of recombination – The hotspot conversion paradox and the evolution of recombination
The contradiction between the long-term persistence of the chromosomal hotspots that initiate meiotic recombination and the self-destructive mechanism by which they act strongly suggests that our u…
Received 21 August 2009 20:11 UTC; Posted 21 August 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Evolutionary Biology
The hotspot conversion paradox
The contradiction between the long-term persistence of the chromosomal hotspots that initiate meiotic recombination and the self-destructive mechanism by which they act strongly suggests that our u…
Received 17 August 2009 20:07 UTC; Posted 18 August 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Evolutionary Biology
Modeling forest insect population dynamics
Overview of the Special Interdisciplinary Minisymposium at the 2009 meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology on modeling of forest insect population dynamics.
Received 17 August 2009 20:14 UTC; Posted 18 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Adaptive evolution and then what?
Traits determining ecological interactions and dynamics are generally subject to natural selection. That genetically based individual variation in ecological traits can influence population dynamic…
Received 16 June 2007 13:48 UTC; Posted 18 June 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
Fluctuating population dynamics promotes the evolution of phenotypic plasticity
An increasing number of studies are showing evidence in support of sympatric speciation. One basic question remains, however. When a population has undergone a branching in its phenotype, is this d…
Received 16 June 2007 13:37 UTC; Posted 16 June 2007
Posted to: Ecology
Noise, cycles, and noisy cycles in finite populations
Periodic predator-prey dynamics in constant environments are usually taken as indicative of deterministic limit cycles. It is known, however, that demographic stochasticity in finite populations ca…
Received 13 June 2007 13:45 UTC; Posted 14 June 2007
Posted to: Ecology
