Most natural populations are spread out in space, so that families from different parts of the range may go many generations without ever coming near each other. How can we use genetics to infer the importance of spatial structure to population dynamics? How does this spatial structure interact with adaptive evolution?
Papers:
- Liu and Weissman (2023), Population structure can reduce clonal interference when sexual reproduction and dispersal are synchronized
- Smith and Weissman (2023), Isolation by distance in populations with power-law dispersal
- Min et al (2022), Spatial structure alters the site frequency spectrum produced by hitchhiking
- Allman and Weissman (2018), Hitchhiking in space: Ancestry in adapting, spatially extended populations